On Raglan Road

Life is an ocean and love is a boat, In troubled waters that keeps us afloat ...This lively collection uncovers for the first time how the best Irish love songs came to be.This is for anyone who ever wondered who the ''Galway Girl'' was, or if there was a real-life ''Nancy Spain''. Learn the often surprising, sometimes bittersweet, but always absorbing stories of the real women who inspired some of the world''s finest love songs.