Mick Clifford: Young Wolfe Tones' fans are supremely untroubled by the Troubles
The huge crowd the band attracted at Electric Picnic last weekend didn't know or care about any pro-IRA sentiment in their lyrics. Sure weren't they just catchy tunes to sing along to
Thousands crowded around the Electric Arena tent in the hopes of hearing the Wolfe Tones play on the final day of Electric Picnic 2023. Picture: Aerial.ie
The crowd outside the festival's second biggest stage was 50-deep. Inside, the lucky ones sang their hearts out for Grace Gifford and her doomed fiancé, Joseph Plunkett; for those struck down by the famine; for the boys from the old brigade who demanded of the Black and Tans that they come out and fight me like a man.
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