I resent the Liam Neeson Irish Stew recipe to a Celtic music list I subscribe to (giving credit to Pat and George). One of the posters, Bill Watkins, tied the themes of several posts together and came up with this interesting paragraph. I thought it may be of interest to this group. By the way, Bill is a publican in Minnesota and an author of two hysterical books, "Celtic Childhood" and "Scotland is not for the Squeamish." You can check them out here - http://wildbillwatkins.com/a_celtic_childhood.html . you can listen to Bill do a reading or two from his first book there. The posts he tied included the Liam Neeson stew, a question about the pronunciation of Croke Park and a concert there, and various cars (like the frog-eyed sprite) used by a certain Celtic band. Here's his reply.... Croke park is an unusual venue for a concert, they wont even allow soccer to be played there, but it is considered hallowed ground in Ireland. There is a bronze plaque in the center of the grass dating from 1920 where two Gaelic football players, Michael Hogan and Jim Egan, were shot by the Black and Tans in front of a crowd of 10,000. An armored car then drove onto the pitch and turned its machine gun on the crowd, twelve people died and sixty were wounded. This vicious act caused King George V to call from the removal of the Auxiliary forces from Ireland. Incidentally, the reenactment of this tragedy in the movie, Michael Collins used both the real Croke Park and the actual armored car. When the Brits left Ireland the armored car was given to the Irish Free State forces and was renamed, Slibhnamon, it was in the convoy that was attacked at Beal na Blath where Michael Collins was killed, Liam Neeson played Michael in the movie and his Irish stew sounds very much like Chris Dale's scouse, Chris once owned a frog-eyed sprite, until he went asleep at the wheel after driving non-stop from Spain and crashed into an electrical wholesaler's window in Tottenham Court Rd, London where Liam Neeson used to live. Cheers, Rick Haverty