You have probably heard it at a St. Patrick's Day parade or shouted across a bar during a Boston Celtics game, and you almost certainly took it as a bit of harmless flattery about a nation blessed ...

"Garryowen" began life as a rowdy Limerick drinking tune, but on the American plains it became the sound that came just before the killing, struck up by Custer's 7th Cavalry as they bore down on ...