Don't think I'd ever heard the name till yesterday. Then:

1) I go to visit my parents who had tales to tell of their recent holiday in Lanzarote where they whiled away most of their evenings at a place called Charley's Bar and enjoyed the music of the band that played there every night enough to buy the band's DVD of covers and traditional Irish songs they play.

Before long I'd heard the full history of this band and asked if I'd heard of any of them because one of them had played with Ronnie Wood (who hasn't he played with though?), and another with the Waterboys. This last one was Sharon Shannon, a name I hadn't heard before even though I do have several Waterboys albums.

Inevitably the DVD was soon put on, and I got a running commentary on each of track up till The Galway Girl, which my dad said was an old traditional song but I suggested was much more recent, being under the impression Steve Earle wrote it. I soon began to doubt where I'd pulled that bit of information from, so backed down and said Steve Earle had definitely done a fine version that I have at home on one of his albums and which is currently on the Magners ad.

2) I get home to find the new Word issue had arrived. In there I found not only Sharon on the cover CD but also a review of her greatest hits album inside. If only I'd gone home first, had a wee read of Word then gone to my parents I'd have been much more informed, or at the least trusted my own knowledge more.

3) Turns out I have another version of Galway Girl, from the recent 'That's Proper Folk' compilation, which I have ripped but not yet listened to.