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Begin by Brendan Kennelly
>>Enlarge Photo ************ More>>Aran Islands
Though we live in a world that dreams of ending
That always seems about to give in
something that will not acknowledge conclusion
Insists that we forever begin.
THE IRISH SONGBAG
>>(Links to all songson YouTube)
Historic Irish Songs
IRELAND Changed 
Historic Rugby Match
Ireland vs.England, Croke Park, Dublin, Feb. 24, 2007
1st visit by English since 1920.
Performed by PADDY HOMAN
Irish national anthem
Performed by PADDY HOMAN
Historic Irish Songs
FOUR GREEN FIELDS
by Tommy Makem
>>Maidin i mB'earra (Morning in Beare) & DANNY BOY (in Irish)
fromthe Irish mo chuisle. “My heart, my pulse / My dear, my darling” as used inthe phrase a chuisle mo chroí(pulse of my heart). Made famous by John McCormack. It was used inthe end credits ofthe 1996 film Michael Collins. Sung here by Paddy Homan of Cork.
I R E L A N D
poem by John Hewitt
The Irish Sea- composed by Shaun Davey
Charles Dickens: Irish in America (1869)
Amid celebrations of Charles Dickenss 200th anniversary, an article, Irish in America,published in his magazine, All the Year Round, 1 May 
1869, London, holds particular interest for todays reader.
Dickens commentedon the Irish, "Of their quickness as tothe humour,there can be no doubt."
Todays emigrants might resonate with this account oftheir ancestors experience over a hundred years ago "who every week flockon boardthe westward-steamers, walk forthe last timeon the their native soil, and gaze forthe last time upon their dear home-friends." >>Read article.
THE WEXFORD CAROL
trad. Irish Christmas carol--12th century.
Also known asThe Enniscorthy Carol
Carl Loch Garma >Click
Natalie MacMaster-violin; Cristina Pato, bagpipes
-from album SONGS OF JOY & PEACE 2008
IRISH SHORT STORIES
Read From
Th whole worls in a terrible state o chassis.says Sean O'Casey.
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ophocles-Oedipus at Colonus:
ophocles 3rd Choral Ode
The basic problem of human life...a Greek view of life in an Irish translation.
THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE
1845-1850
Music Composed by Patrick Cassidy (1997) for 150th Anniversary, with St. Patrick's Cathedral Orchestra.
Commentary by Peter Quinn, New York writer. - 7.21 mins.
>FAMINE in Art, Cartoon, Sketch
- 13.56 mins
Music Composed for 150th Anniversary (1995) by Marian Ingoldsby
with Famine Memorials around world.
-13.50 minutes
The Poor Old Woman
[Famine times in Co Waterford]
A Co Waterford version of a
traditional Irish song dating from 1798
recited by Seán Murphy
Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, IRELAND
ANTECEDENT CAUSE OFTHE IRISH FAMINE: LECTURE BY BISHOP JOHN HUGHES, NEW YORK 1847 MORE>>
NEW YORK TIMES Jan. 4, 1864 >>OBIT
THE MAIL
January 14, 2013
FAMINE AND FARMS
Pankraj Mishra asserts that Ireland’s Great Potato Famine was caused by "Britain’s heartlessly enforced ideology of laissez-faire" ("The Hungry Years," Dec. 10th). In fact, as the historian Stephen Davies explains, though Ireland’s Great Potato Famine was caused by British heartlessness, the policies at the root of the famine were quite the opposite of laissez-faire...>Read Letter by D. J. Boudreaux, George Mason University
THE GREAT FAMINE bythe Choral Project (6 mins. 34 secs.)>>View
Famine song
Ease my spirit, ease my soul,
please free my hands from this barren soil,
ease my mother, ease my child,
Earth and sky be reconciled.
Rain, rain, rain.
Weave, my mother, weave, my child,
weave your baskets of rushes wild.
Out of heat, under sun,
comesthe hunger to evryone.
Famines teeth, famines claw
on the sands of Africa.
Rain, rain, rain.
Originally composed by Vida, this is a performancebyThe Choral Project fromthe One IsThe Allconcert performance, June 23, 2006, in San Jose, CA.
An Gorta Mor -The Great Famine
A documentary from TG4, Ireland's Irish language television service, in which a singer revisitsthe famine ofthe 1840s and accepts a challenge to compose and to perform a new song in response to it all. >>AN GORTA MOR
Reilig An tSlibhe, Pulla, Famine burial ground inthe Dungarvan area, Co Waterford, SE Ireland
Mostpeople will associatethe site at Reilig An tSlibhe, Pulla, asthe main Famine burial ground inthe Dungarvan area. However, before that site was acquiredKilrush wasthe usual location for burials of those who died inthe Workhouse This ancient graveyard is situated inthe middle of a field inthe townland of Kilrush tothe North-West ofthe town. It hasthe remains of a tiny Early Christian church. Kilrush was alsothe common burial ground for strangers and others who had no family or friends to claimthem.
On 29 April 1847the Master reported that Kilrush graveyard was full and that a visiting committee would reporton its condition.By early Junethe situation had become desperate andthe Master warned thatthe dead would have to be left above ground unless a suitable site for a new graveyard could be acquired immediately.
SONGS of FAMINE
Skibbereen:A taditional, narrative song that takes place duringthe famine and rebellion of 1848, first published in The Irish Singer's Own Book(Noonan, Boston 1880), attributed to Patrick Carpenter, poet and native of Skibbereen.The son inthe song asks his father why he leftthe village of Skibbereen in West Cork, Ireland, to live in another country, to whichthe father tells him ofthe hardship he faced in his homeland. It endson a vengeful note expressed bythe son. Sung by Ronnie Drew, Dubliners.>>LISTEN - 3.43 mins.
Letters from Kilkelly, Co Mayo
tellthe story of an Irish emigrant to America through a series of letters (1860-1892) from his father, John Coyne in Kilkelly, Co Mayo. 1892. American songwriter Peter Jones basedthe songon a batch of old letters he found tied together in a box inthe attic of his parents home in America.The letters from his great-great-grandfather to his son John were written bythe local schoolmaster, Patrick McNamara.>>Sung by Robbie O'Connell - 7.01 mins.
- Words in songKilkelly Ireland Song
- Text of allthe Kilkelly letters which inspired Peter Jones to writethe song and also Pat McNamara's diary >>Read here.
by Pete St. John (a Dubliner) is an Irish folk ballad set duringthe Great Famine (1845-1850) about a fictional man named Michael from near Athenry, County Galway who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food for his starving family-Sung by Paddy Reilly - 4.37 mins.
The DIVIDED BLANKET
An ancient Irish story
on Elder Care >>More
THE OLD MUNSTER CIRCUIT
Imean that a Corkman likes to tell a story as it should be told;the garb may be elaborated, butthe body is not deformed.
I've NEVER FORGOTTEN A TRIAL IN CORK, More>
EARLY IRISH MUSIC
The Boat Song of Columbanus
7th century
Aspirited boat rowing song attributed to St. Columbanus (d. 615) Irish monk, scholar, founder of many monasteries in Europe and of Bobbio in northern Italy capturesthe mood of adventure and robust faith that animated him and his Irish monks--the peregini--pilgrim scholars, teachers and musicians who returned tothe Continent and founded centers of learning in Europe aftertheonslaught of Northern European barbarians who sacked Rome and thrust Western civilization intothe ’Dark Ages’.
SYNGE: PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
In Ireland, if you but draw your finger across the scales of a salmon and lick your finger, by that reason alone you acquire great wisdom.
Salmon -- Book of Kells 8th Century
PADDY HOMAN
The Scholar
University College Cork
B.S. Degree - Social Work
with Bob & Nona Lyons
September 2004
*****
Master's Degree - Professional Development
DePaul University
June 2013
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Launch of 1st CD:
FAR FROM THE LAND
CORK,IRELAND
March 2015
READ> REVIEW
“If you enjoy a good Irish song performed with passion and feeling, get yourself a copy of FAR FROM THE LAND”
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A Short History of Ireland
- History of Ireland PART 1 * From Celts to Divided Ireland 58:52 mins.
- History of Ireland Part 2 * Partition to Power Sharing + Seamus Heany 16:21 mins.
President John F. Kennedy
35th President of United State
January 20, 1960 to November 22, 1963
>Address (Introduction) to Dail Eireann
Irish Parliament * Leinster House
Dublin * June 28, 1963 (AUDIO ONLY)
- 8.18 minutes
VIDEO of SAME SPEECH:
"One of the most brilliant stories of that day was written by a band of 1,200 men who went into battle wearing a green sprig in their hats. They bore a proud heritage and a special courage, given to those who had long fought for the cause of freedom." JFK
The Poor Old Woman
[Famine times in Co Waterford]
A Co Waterford version of a
traditional Irish song dating from 1798
recited by Seán Murphy
Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, IRELAND
ANTECEDENT CAUSE OF THE IRISH FAMINE: LECTURE BY BISHOP JOHN HUGHES, NEW YORK 1847 MORE>>
NEW YORK TIMES Jan. 4, 1864 >>OBIT
Murder Unlimited
Review by Frank O’Connor
of
THE GREAT HUNGER: Ireland 1845-9
by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1962)
The Story of the Potato Famine of the 1840s which killed one million Irish peasants and sent hundreds of thousands tothe new world.
>Read Review IRISH TIMES, Nov. 10, 1962
IRISH Songs in AMERICA
PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILROAD,popular ballad in America between 1850 and 1880 when Irish immigrants along with Chinese and African-American laborers built the transcontinental railroads. Sung by Luke Kelly & The Dubliners
ME UNCLE DAN McCANN,celebrates Dan McCanns life in America. His continuing affection for Ireland represented the pinnacle of Irish achievement in 19th century American politics. Sung by Mick Moloney
BARD OF ARMAGH (sung by Paddy Homan) becomes Streets of Laredo becomes St. James Infirmary Blues (Satchimo) >LISTEN
Written in 1862 in England, modified in America, immensly popular in months.
Pete Seeger & The Weavers >>LISTEN
Johnny I Hardly New Ye (Irish - 1820) Blended with Yiddish Kadish, and with When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again (Irish - 1861) >LISTEN
DRAMA
The Countess
Cathleen
by
W. B. Yeats (1899)
Dedicated to Maud Gonne
The Play that launched
ABBEY THEATRE, Dublin
The Countess Cathleen sells her soul to the devil to save her tenants from starvation and from damnation for having sold their own souls. After her death, she is redeemed as her motives were altruistic and ascends to Heaven.
Siobhán McKenna as
The Countess Cathleen
&
John Neville as Aleel, the poet
A Village Wooing
A Comedietta for Two Voices
by George Bernard Shaw
The play, an affectionate satire on the processes of wooing and wedding was broadcast on RT [Irish Radio] on 29th July 1956 starring Cyril Cusack & Siobhn McKenna.
>>Listen to Radio & Video-46 minutes: Excellent
WHISKEY, from the Irish (Gaelic) word uisce or uisce beatha, "lively water" or "water of life".
The notable WHISKEY SPEECH by Judge Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr. (d. 1996), judge, law professor, state representative in 1952 on floor of Mississippi state legislature, classic political doublespeak.
"...the devil's brew, the poison scourge...
BUT: the lubricant of conversation, philosophic juice, the elixir of life!"
Recited by author John Grisham, assistant to Judge Soggy Sweat, University of Mississippi Law School. >>VIDEO
Full text >>SPEECH
Thomas Moore, Trinity college friend, championed
Emmett cause after his execution 1803 by writing hugely popular ballads about him and fiancé Sarah Curran,
"She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps
And lovers around her are sighing."
Requiem for the Croppies
By Seamus Heaney
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley -
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp -
We moved quick and sudden in our own country
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people, hardly marching - on the hike -
We found new tactics happening each day:
We'd cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave,
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.
>St Brigid's Prayer
10th Century
Irish poem 16th Century
>IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION
CHANT 9th Century NEUMES
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by Seán O Riada (1959) Feature documentary film on events leading to Easter Rising of 1916.
O Riada used as THEME SONG Róisín Dubh - ‘My Dark Rosaleen’ [from 16th century and other songs along with traditional IRISH tunes in his composition for the film Mise Éire, just as Beethoven and Mozart used the folk songs of their countries in their symphonies.
(Sung sean-nós by PADDY HOMAN – 2.39 mins)
>Hodie cantandus est nobis
(Today we sing of a child)
Written for CHRISTMAS MASS by Tutilo, St. Gall Abbey,
IRISH monk - c. 900
EASTER PROCLAMATION - DUBLIN APRIL 1916
PATRICK PEARSE
- read by Paddy Homan
>From the Republic of Conscience
read by Seamus Heaney
John B. Keane
Master's Degree DePAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago
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