Talk:The Auld Triangle

Some Colour to the Page
I added a photograph to the wikipedia entry on The Auld Triangle. A photograph of a prison van turning into the prison. Vaguely related.

Ideally, the article should have a picture of the actual triangle and the hammer used to beat it. They are on exhibit in the prison. I might try and get a photo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cograng (talk • contribs) 23:29, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

[Untitled]
The article overlooks Ian and Sylvia's recording of this song. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.28.106 (talk) 19:59, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I fixed some of the formatting for this article and directed the links to go to actual pages. I'm wondering, however, if when it discusses The Dubliners, do we really need to specify that we are talking about the band? To me, it seems pretty well implied. Any thoughts?

What's meant by "the old triangle?"? According to the Dubliners album "30 Years A-Greying", prisoners in "Correction Institutions" were woken up with a triangular piece of metal. Tommeehan 16:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Authorship of this songBold text

In an interview with some American radio station Behan introduces the Auld Triangle "as a song written by a man who will never hear it as he doesn't own a grammaphone as he's a tramp". It din't sound like a joke to me. You can hear the clip on youtube under Brendan Behan on the Easter Rising. Does anybody have any info on this. ThanksPaddyjack (talk) 21:35, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

From 5:55 in the following clip Behan says a homeless person wrote the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrkwy4vhyA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.37.198 (talk) 15:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

The Galway Shawl
This page, especially the section on authorship, seems to omit a very important fact, which is that the melody of the song comes from The Galway Shawl, a traditional song which, according to its Wikipedia entry, was first collected in 1936. Surely this fact merits at least one mention on this page? Sunsetandcamden (talk) 14:59, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

This song kicks ass!
Love getting messed up on Jameson and singing this song 73.112.72.115 (talk) 13:37, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Graphic needs replacement
The picture for this article is ridiculous. It might as be a photograph of a duck. In what way is a modern prison van, blocking the view of some anonymous redbrick building, remotely relevant to anything? 109.154.200.24 (talk) 11:44, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Song meaning needs updating
The part about the woman’s vagina should be removed. The citation leads to an obscure blog by an author that offers no evidence to back his opinion. The fact that the actual triangle still hangs on the building and the songwriter spent time in the prison suggests the lyrics are fairly straightforward. Suggesting hidden meanings is a disservice to the song. Johnfromnowhere (talk) 22:02, 27 September 2023 (UTC)