Electric Picnic is Ireland’s biggest annual music festival. It has come to occupy a place in the national calendar similar to that of the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom. Like Glastonbury, it can be relied upon to provide stories for news outlets hungry for summer incident. Quite often, the stories about the festival revolve around drugs and sex. No surprises there. However, this year’s biggest Electric Picnic controversy concerns a folk band called the Wolfe Tones, whose members have been writing and singing Irish rebel songs for decades.