Fontaines DC's new song inspired by the case, according to a Coventry lady who won a court struggle to install a headstone with an inscription in Irish to honor her late mother, is "a fitting finale to the trip that we went on as a family."

        Last year, Bernadette Martin, Margaret Keane's daughter, and her family won the permission to have a Celtic cross with the inscription "In ár gCrothe go deo" - which translates to "In our hearts forever" - placed on her grave at St Giles Church in Exhall.

        Their plea was first denied by a Church of England consistory court, which insisted on an English translation because it may be interpreted as a "political statement." However, the verdict was eventually reversed due to racial prejudice. Mrs Martin describes the "stunningly eerie" opening tune of the Grammy-nominated group's latest album, Skinty Fia, as "stunningly haunting."

        Mrs Martin tells the BBC that her family was "honored" that the Dublin band "acknowledged our tale." "It was the absolute last thing we could have imagined," she adds. "The first thing my sisters and I did when we heard it was go to my mother's grave and play it for her and listen to it for the first time there."

        Mrs Martin describes it as a "very touching" event in "our quest to get the Irish language recognized on my mother's gravestone." The family's victory in February 2021 came after an almost three-year campaign to get Mrs Keane's last resting place inscribed with words from her homeland.

        Her contemporaries were nominated for a Grammy Award for best rock album for their previous album A Hero's Death around the same period. Grian Chatten, the band's frontman and lead lyricist, says getting in touch with the family recently to express their acceptance after seeing the new album tracklisting online was "one of the most beautiful things that's ever occurred."

        He tells us, "That means a lot more to me than any Grammy nomination." "Just the fact that we were able to say anything about something like that without disrespecting, offending, or commandeering what was really a family narrative," says the author.