The song was written by Dominic Behan as a tribute to his father Stephen; often authorship of the song is attributed to Stephen.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in December 1962 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience of Dublin’s RTE Studios.
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Behan lived in a house in Russell Street on the Northside of Dublin which belonged to his mother Christine English, who owned a number of properties in the area.
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