The Irish Rover was a majestic vessel sailing the Atlantic from New York City east to Cork, Ireland. Immortalized in an Irish folk song, the original ship had 23 masts, which gradually shifted in eminence as the song was reimagined throughout the decades. When the Dubliners and the Pogues took on “The Irish Rover” in […]
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