This week:
Sing Orange, Sing Green
In Belfast it is always easier to remember than it is to forget. The voodoo of party tune and rebel ballad make sure of that.
But never has there been such a revival of old songs and the writing of new ones as there has in the past six years since the modern ' troubles ' began. Dates, battles, tribal scores still to be settled in the fulness of time - all, it seems, have to be rushed into verse and, frequently, the same tunes are employed by both sides. Alongside the records and the broadsheets stand the ' souvenirs,' from the Maze Prison, Long Kes.h - plaques and carved guns.
Written by MAURICE LEITCH
Producer ROBIN WYLIE (Northern Ireland) Editor ADAM CLAPHAM