Artist: Brendan Behan
Author: Dickey Shannon
Label: Spoken Arts Records
Year: 1956

Written by his drinking pal as an introduction to his play The Quare Fellow (1954), about a condemned prisoner the day of his execution. Referring to the mice in his Mountjoy prison cell, while serving time for his part in IRA activities. The triangle there was used every morning as their wake up call. Brendan first sang it outside a pub while invited for RTE radio program The Ballad Maker's Saturday Night in 1952, but he really earned his reputation as "a drinker with a writing problem" during a drunken appearence in a BBC tv-show in 1956, promoting the West End staging of his play while singing this very same Auld Triangle. The play was first staged at the Pike Theatre Club, Herbert Lane in Dublin in November '54. Filmed in '62.

Inspired by the music hall tune Never Let Your Braces Dangle. Some even recognize a vague echo in Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man. After all, Dylan covered The Auld Triangle with The Band during sessions for the Basement Tapes (Bootleg Series Vol 11).