"Dirty Old Town" being sung by a Dublin bartender? Nothing better. It’s a scene familiar to plenty of pub patrons - at the end of the night (and a feed of pints) someone is bound to begin an earnest ...

“Ewan MacColl didn’t want to be from Salford, from what he thought of as a filthy, industrial place,” says Peggy Seeger, the late singer-songwriter’s widow. “He used to insist later he came from ...