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Roisin Dubh, a traditional song about a dark rose, is a cloaked political narrative about the Irish nation. It was sung by Joe Heaney and is extracted from “Say a Song”, a collection of his performances published by and used courtesy of Northwest Folklife and the University of Washington. It was recorded in December, 1981, by Robin Hitschew in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Mo Bhrón Ar An Bhrarraige, a folk poem, is read by Seán Ó Coileain, then head of the Modern Irish Studies Department at University College Cork, and was recorded at UCC in January, 2006. The poem is collected in An Duanaire 1600-1900, Poems of the Dispossessed, edited and translated by Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, and published by Foras na Gaelige, 1981.
Account, a personal account of his experience with hunger, this recording of Eddie Martinez, a gentleman who was then living without a home, was made in New York City in late 2005.
Sharon Kennedy, a student at University College Cork, reads an excerpt from Asenath Nicholson’s Asenath Nicholson, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849 (New York 1851; repr. & ed. by Maureen Murphy, Dublin 1988), in which she observes an individual suffering from extreme starvation. Recorded by Ms. Kennedy in Cork, 2006.
Exodus to Connacht, a 17th century prayer poem composed by Fear Dorch Ó Mealláin, who was most likely from County Down and a priest, is read by Denise O’Reilly, in New York City in 2005.
Account, a story told by Ciblin Mic Concoille and transcribed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1945, is read by Michael O’Malley, Rosi Hayes, and Elaine Mary Fahy. Recorded in various locations, 2006, 2007. This account is archived at UCD’s Delargy Center for Irish Folklore and the National Folklore Collection.
Keen, Margaret Barry sings this traditional lament, recorded by Alan Lomax in 1953. An extract from I Sang Through the Fairs, “Keening, Diddling, and Lullabies,” is presented courtesy of Rounder Records.
Account, a story told by Ciblin Mic Concoille and transcribed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1945, is read by John MacHale, a student at University College Cork. Recorded by Mr. MacHale in Cork, 2006.
Bodhrán, Robbie Harris played the bodhrán.
Walking Pilgrimages, are two recordings I made of myself walking in important locations. The first, was made in Ballina, County Mayo, in January 2006, when my sister and I walked around the site where the Irish Hunger Memorial’s cottage originated. The second was made in the great desert West of the Great Salt Lake on a desolate pass in the Grayback hills where the Donner Party crossed into a brutal 100-mile stretch of waterless desert on their way to Pilot Peak and starvation in the Sierra Nevada.
lyrics
My grief on the ocean
it is surely wide
stretched between me
and my dearest love.
I am left behind
to make lament
—not expected for ever
beyond the sea.
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