Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land and the grave of Willie McBride at the Somme

• Main Author: Walsh, Michael J. K.
• Other Authors: School of Art, Design and Media
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::General; Eric Bogle; Willie McBride
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147801
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eric Bogle wrote No Man’s Land in 1975. When it was released as The Green Fields of France by Davey Arthur and the Fureys in 1979 the song topped the Irish charts, while as far away as Australia it was declared one ‘of the most striking musical essays yet written on the futility of war.’ Yet No Man’...