Border Bard

Dundalk has never enjoyed the popular national cultural cache that some other Irish towns did. Even souless dormitory An Uaimh had its "Navan Man" period. Now one man threatens to propel the Town into the nation's contemporary artistic consciousness. Jinx Lennon - the putative (stylistic) spawn of Bob Dylan and Eminem according to one critic. Visit his site and listen to some of the songs available there. Not immediately registering on the sweet melody scale, there is "a terrible beauty" about Jinx's work and a dissonance based charm about his work. His lyrics delivered in that unflinchingly proud North Louth accent are a delicious if not immediately obvious pleasure...kind of like the taste of poiteen or hot chilli paste.