http://songsandstories.net/myblog/2006/04/19/kilkelly-ireland/ Blog for Author, John O\'Brien Sun, 06 May 2012 07:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://songsandstories.net/myblog/2006/04/19/kilkelly-ireland/#comment-17455 An Gorta Mór « Tony Ohh’s Journey Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:11:12 +0000 http://songsandstories.net/myblog/2006/04/19/kilkelly-ireland/#comment-17455 [...] This song is a sad love song, over the course of 7-8 years the Famine in Ireland took it’s toll on many families, the country lost 25% of it’s people, a  million dead, a million or so emigrated.The political side of the debate still lingers as does the bitterness of many. This song was written based on a series of letters from a father to his son who left Ireland for America for a short visit, well thirty years later the song plays out to a sad end…. [...] [...] This song is a sad love song, over the course of 7-8 years the Famine in Ireland took it’s toll on many families, the country lost 25% of it’s people, a  million dead, a million or so emigrated.The political side of the debate still lingers as does the bitterness of many. This song was written based on a series of letters from a father to his son who left Ireland for America for a short visit, well thirty years later the song plays out to a sad end…. [...]

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