Up Went Nelson

"Up Went Nelson" was a song by The Go Lucky Four (a group of Belfast school teachers: Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan, John Sullivan and Eamonn McGirr) that was number one on the Ireland music charts in 1966 for eight consecutive weeks.[1]

It was sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and is about the destruction on 8 March 1966 of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.[2]

See also

Nelson's Farewell

References
  1. Fleming, Diarmaid (12 March 2016). "The man who blew up Nelson". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  2. Usher, Ramona (14 July 2014). "Dublin and its Georgian legacy: The battle for iconoclasm". In Mancini, JoAnne; Bresnahan, Keith (eds.). Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-0415702508.
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