Editing Luke Kelly (section)

==Early life==
Luke Kelly was born to Luke Kelly and Julia Fleming, a [[working-class]] couple, in [[Sheriff Street]], [[Dublin]].<ref name="cowell">{{cite book|title =Dublin's Famous People and where They Lived |page = 101 | author= John Cowell| date=1996 | publisher=O'Brien Press |isbn= 9780862784683}}</ref> His maternal grandmother Elizabeth McDonald, who emigrated to [[Ireland]] from [[Scotland]], lived with the Kelly family until her death in 1953. Kelly's father, who was also named Luke, was wounded as a child when a detachment of soldiers from the [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]] opened fire on a Dublin crowd on 26 July 1914 in what became known as the [[Bachelor's Walk massacre]].<ref name=jacobin>{{cite web |url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/luke-kelly-ireland-folk-rare-ould-times-socialism |title=Ireland's Red Troubadour |last=Burtenshaw |first=Ronan |date=17 March 2018 |website=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |accessdate=17 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/duffys-book-tells-the-forgotten-stories-of-40-children-rising-killed-34116877.html | newspaper = Irish Independent | title = Duffy's book tells the forgotten stories of 40 children Rising killed | date = 16 October 2015 | accessdate = 2 December 2020 }}</ref> He was taken to [[Jervis Street Hospital]] with a bullet wound to the lung and, although not expected to recover, he overcame his injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/12/02/luke-i-am-your-father/ | website = broadsheet.ie | title = Luke, I Am Your Father | date = 2020 |accessdate=22 February 2023}}</ref>

After growing up, Kelly's father worked for most of his adult life at a [[Jacob's]] biscuit factory and enjoyed playing football. The elder Luke was a keen singer: Luke junior's brother Paddy later recalled that "he had this talent...to sing [[negro spiritual]]s by people like [[Paul Robeson]], we used to sit around and join in – that was our entertainment". After [[Dublin Corporation]] demolished Lattimore Cottages in 1942, the Kellys became the first family to move into the St. Laurence O’Toole flats, where Luke spent the bulk of his childhood, although the family were forced to move by a fire in 1953 and settled in the [[Whitehall, Dublin|Whitehall]] area.<ref name=jacobin /> Both Luke and Paddy played club [[Gaelic football]] and [[soccer]] as children.<ref name="geraghty">{{cite book | last = Geraghty| first = Des| title = Luke Kelly: A Memoir | publisher = Basement Press| year = 1994| location = Dublin, Ireland the best place in the world| pages = 18–20 }}</ref>

Kelly left school at thirteen, and after a number of years of odd-jobbing, he went to England in 1958.<ref name="rteprofile">{{cite web|url= http://www.rte.ie/archives/profiles/kelly-luke/ | publisher = RTÉ |title = Profiles – Luke Kelly | accessdate= 16 August 2016 |quote = Though Luke left school at thirteen, he worked a variety of jobs before moving to England in 1958}}</ref> Working at steel fixing with his brother Paddy on a building site in [[Wolverhampton]], he was apparently sacked after asking for higher pay.<ref name="diasporic">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7awwBwAAQBAJ&q=%22luke+kelly%22+%22higher+pay%22&pg=PA99 | publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing | author= Angela Moran | title= Irish Music Abroad: Diasporic Sounds in Birmingham |date=2012 |isbn=9781443843805 |pages=99–105}}</ref> He worked a number of odd jobs, including a period as a vacuum cleaner salesman.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-gospel-according-to-luke-1.1161210 | newspaper = The Irish Times | title = The gospel according to Luke | date = 9 October 2004 | accessdate = 1 September 2018 }}</ref> Describing himself as a [[beatnik]], he travelled [[Northern England]] in search of work, summarising his life in this period as "cleaning lavatories, cleaning windows, cleaning railways, but very rarely cleaning my face".<ref name=jacobin />