Pat Meade had links with both Cork and Ohio. Richard Ellmann and others identify Myles Crawford in real life as Patrick John Meade, a Freeman staffer who became editor of the Evening Telegraph :Ī big, stout man, with red hair and a red face, he dressed like a dandy, and was invariably clean shaven with a flower in his buttonhole, although he had usually spent most of the previous night drinking. On the face of it, he bursts into the refrain ‘Ohio, my Ohio’ to cap his (probably garbled) story about the North Cork militia fighting under Spanish officers in Ohio ( U 7.359-63). Why does Myles Crawford, editor of Dublin’s Evening Telegraph, launch into a song about Ohio? And what is the song that he’s singing?
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