Dance Stance aka. "Burn it down" - Dexy's Midnight Runners

As a Northumbrian (by inheritance, conception, and residence - if not birth!) who yet has a better claim to pretend to be Irish than most of the show-biz people who make such a big thing of it...

[The Irish can do what they like to celebrate their patron; but I am referring to the international, US-derived and disseminated festival of lurid green and paralytic drunkenness et sequelae - that began here in an adjacent suburban street (and major road artery) with literally thousands on the streets and queuing at bars from 10am.] 

Perhaps it is timely to remember this great single by Dexy's Midnight Runners * - as a response to this B.awful anti-Saints Day of shameless ignorance, embarrassing condescension, exploitive materialism, desperate hedonism, and cultural nihilism.  

Other than that, it's just good fun!

I'll only ask you once more 

You only want to believe 

This man is looking for someone to hold him down 

He doesn't quite ever understand the meaning 

Chorus:

I never heard about Oscar Wilde 

I don't talk about Brendan Behan 

I don't think about Sean O'Casey 

I don't care about George Bernard Shaw 

He doesn't care about Samuel Beckett 

He won't talk about Eugene O'Neill 

Edna O'Brien and Laurence Sterne 

Shut it! You don't understand it 

Shut it! That's not the way I planned it 

Shut it! Shut your mouth 'til you know the truth 

[Repeat, with extra names] 

Sean Kavanaugh and Sean McCann 

Benedict Keilly, Jimmy Hiney 

Frank O'Connor and Catherine Rhine

* 

https://www.discogs.com/release/1185203-Dexys-Midnight-Runners-Dance-Stance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Stance