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Context for this song is provided by the track "Scroll 11" (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107859460391/).
This song refers to several acts of terror carried out by the IRA, a.k.a. the Provisional Irish Republican Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army). Specifically, the assassination of Louis Mountbatten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma) by blowing up his boat, the detonation of a bomb in Canary Wharf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing), and the abduction of a racehorse called Shegar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar), the remains of which have never been discovered.
Context for this song is provided by the track "Scroll 11" (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107859460391/).
This song refers to several acts of terror carried out by the IRA, a.k.a. the Provisional Irish Republican Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army). Specifically, the assassination of Louis Mountbatten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma) by blowing up his boat, the detonation of a bomb in Canary Wharf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing), and the abduction of a racehorse called Shegar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar), the remains of which have never been discovered.