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"Up Went Nelson"
Song by The Go Lucky Four

"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][3]

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.
  3. ^ "Up Went Nelson Lyrics And Chords". Irish folk songs. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
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