"Up Went Nelson" was a song by ''The Go Lucky Four'' (a group of

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school teachers: Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan
John Sullivan
and Eamonn McGirr, managed at the time by Gerry Crean). It reached No.1 in the Irish charts where it remained for 10 weeks. It was sung to the tune of "

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" and is about the destruction on 8 March 1966 of

Nelson's Pillar Nelson's Pillar (also known as the Nelson Pillar or simply the Pillar) was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, built in the centre of what was then Sackville Street (later renamed O'Connell Street) in Dublin, Ireland. ...

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Irish folk songs 1966 songs Songs with unknown songwriters {{Folk-song-stub

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