"The Fields of Athenry" sounds like an old Famine ballad but it was written in 1979
Pete St. John invented Michael, Mary and their baby in a Dublin songwriting session, and the result has been translated into 50 languages and adopted as an anthem by Celtic and Munster supporters alike.
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