"The Island" is a 1985 song by Irish musician Paul Brady, who comes from Omagh in County Tyrone (in Northern Ireland). The start of the song compares the tragic events of the Lebanese Civil War with the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. Lines in the song refer to activities in Northern Ireland: "They're rising banners over by the Markets / Whitewashing slogans on the shipyard wall". "The Markets" is a well-known Republican area surrounding St George's Market in Belfast

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