What is it about the Irish that makes them such great travellers?
The Irish have always been travellers really, you know. In the fifth century they went out and discovered America, and set up monasteries in Europe and educated half of Europe. Being an island nation, people try to get out there and see the world. You wrote a song for Celtic Football Club, at their request, but then they banned it… [The song] was kind of painting a picture of what I think Glasgow and Celtic supporters are, and everything like that. I kind of made up a little story surrounding Celtic supporters… But there’s a great big anti-Irish bias in Glasgow and some people complained about there being an Irish group in Celtic Park, they made a big furore over it, there were headlines in the paper and everything else. That’s the way it is in Glasgow, there’s this anti-Irish, anti-Catholic vibe there. You’ve complained that the media goes to “great lengths” to try to ignore your existence. Why is that? Back in the 1960s The Wolfe Tones were singing all kinds of songs, like anti-a
