<P> `` Nancy Mulligan '' is one of the most personal songs on the album , telling the story of how his grandparents , William Sheeran , a Protestant from Belfast , Northern Ireland and Nancy Mulligan , a Catholic from Republic of Ireland , met , fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border . Sheeran said : `` They got engaged and no one turned up at their wedding . He stole all the gold teeth in his dental surgery and melted them down into a wedding ring , and they wore borrowed clothes to get married , and just basically have this kind of Romeo and Juliet romance , which is like the most romantic thing . So I thought I 'd write a song about it and make it a jig . '' </P>
<P> `` Nancy Mulligan '' is one of the most personal songs on the album , telling the story of how his grandparents , William Sheeran , a Protestant from Belfast , Northern Ireland and Nancy Mulligan , a Catholic from Republic of Ireland , met , fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border . Sheeran said : `` They got engaged and no one turned up at their wedding . He stole all the gold teeth in his dental surgery and melted them down into a wedding ring , and they wore borrowed clothes to get married , and just basically have this kind of Romeo and Juliet romance , which is like the most romantic thing . So I thought I 'd write a song about it and make it a jig . '' </P>
what is ed sheerans song nancy mulligan about
what is ed sheerans song nancy mulligan about
the story of how his grandparents , William Sheeran , a Protestant from Belfast , Northern Ireland and Nancy Mulligan , a Catholic from Republic of Ireland , met , fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border
the story of how his grandparents , William Sheeran , a Protestant from Belfast , Northern Ireland and Nancy Mulligan , a Catholic from Republic of Ireland , met , fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border