Both are amazing songs Alan! Thanks for sharing.
I am of Irish descent - my grandparents on both sides came to the US in the early 1900s.
My dad had a framed W.B Yeats quote on his desk for years. - when he passed, I got the quote, which is above my desk right now.
The quote: "Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy"
Kevin