This weekend is the Shanty and Seafaring Festival. This is a group of Dutch Shanty singers. They were being watched by a group of Italian Shanty fans. It’s a whole world I never knew existed until I accidentally ended up in Rosses Point in Sligo last night before giving a lecture today. As I was heading to bed, a group started singing some song I learned in Junior Infants about leaving some girl in Kingston Town. I knew all the words.