In case you hadn’t noticed, today is St Patrick’s Day. I’m not in the least part Irish – I’d never have passed the Jack Charlton test – but I have long been a huge fan of Irish music. It therefore felt right to make an additional bonus post this week and share a few tunes for the day. I won’t be passing much comment on the music – think of this as more a brief Wednesday Warblings rather than a Tuesday Tunes post – but I hope you’ll enjoy some of the music that wonderful country has produced over the years.

The first one is a meeting made in Heaven between two of my favourites. Van Morrison and The Chieftains got together in 1988 to make an album called Irish Heartbeat, and this is the opening track:

A slower one next, from a master of his craft:

It isn’t one…