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56 was the number of the house my maternal grandparents, Marie and Dermot Power, lived in Dublin. When my granny wrote us letters, which she often did when we were away, she would simply write ’56’ in the top right hand corner for the address. We spent a lot of our childhood with them and in that house and this tune is a small tribute to them.
