Cover art for Helicopter Song by The Wolfe Tones

Helicopter Song

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The song tells the story of the 1973 escape of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners from Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.“The Helicopter Song”, which was immediately banned by the government yet still topped the Irish popular music charts after selling twelve thousand copies in a single week

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