Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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Eugene Dunphy explores the story behind The Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s Door, a jaunty ballad written by John Patrick Dane.

0:00 John Patrick Dane, ballad writer
01:14 Johnny Patterson, not the writer
01:42 Dane’s early life in Liverpool
02:20 Early music hall appearances
02:46 Dane’s Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s Door
04:50 Sheet music of ballad
05:09 Dane in prison
06:15 Dane in Brownlow Infirmary
06:35 Dane’s death at Denville Hall
06:48 Where is ‘the stone’?
07:20 Examining the verses
07:40 Recordings
08:15 Dan Murphy’s Door (song)