The Fields of Athenry is probably the best-known song about the Great Famine which raged over Ireland from 1845 until 1849.
The main character is awaiting transportation to the penal colony Botany Bay for stealing corn from a food depot. Whilst imprisoned his thoughts wander off to the abandoned fields of Athenry, a village just east of Galway Town.
Charles Trevelyan, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury during most of the Famine years, was reluctant to hand out his corn and when the corn depots opened they mainly contained maize, or Indian corn. Due to its hard kernel the Irish were unable to process the maize.
When The Fields of Athenry was published in 1979 by Pete St. John the rumour was spread that the words already had been published in the 1880's. Evidence supporting this rumour however is never produced and St. John's claim is widely acknowledged.
Once published Paddy Reilly... (Continues)
Hillsborough dell'89. La polizia ne fu responsabile (come recentemente ammesso , nel 2012, dall'ex premier Cameron), ma il governo della Lady di Ferro e i Tabloid (tra tutti il Sun che pare non sia particolarmente amato a Liverpool, dove subisce un boicottaggio da quasi 30 anni) fecero una campagna che colpevolizzava i tifosi, insabbiava le inchieste il tutto per colpire delle roccaforti della classe operaia che avevano solidarizzati con scioperanti e hungerstrikers
The Devlin family, to which Anne Devlin was born in 1780, maintained close relations with noted nationalists such as Michael Dwyer, who was Anne's uncle, and the O'Tooles and the O'Byrnes. Due to this relations the military drew a bead on the Devlin's after the Rebellion of 1798. Anne's father, even though his involvement in the rising has yet to be established, was imprisoned in Wicklow Gaol and his family was frequently raided on account of Dwyer and O'Byrne.
After being released after two years imprisonment Devlin decided to leave their small farmstead in Cronbeg near Rathdrum, County Wicklow, to take up resident at Butterfield Lane in Rathfarnham in County Dublin.
Early 1803 their neighbourhood welcomed a new resident who introduced himself as Mr Ellis. In fact Mr Ellis was the alias Robert Emmet. A close friendship emerged between the Devlin's and Robert Emmet and when Emmet asked... (Continues)
In Dublin town they sing of a brave Wicklow woman (Continues)
The main character is awaiting transportation to the penal colony Botany Bay for stealing corn from a food depot. Whilst imprisoned his thoughts wander off to the abandoned fields of Athenry, a village just east of Galway Town.
Charles Trevelyan, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury during most of the Famine years, was reluctant to hand out his corn and when the corn depots opened they mainly contained maize, or Indian corn. Due to its hard kernel the Irish were unable to process the maize.
When The Fields of Athenry was published in 1979 by Pete St. John the rumour was spread that the words already had been published in the 1880's. Evidence supporting this rumour however is never produced and St. John's claim is widely acknowledged.
Once published Paddy Reilly... (Continues)