The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland; performed by Tony Reilly

The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland performed by Tony Reilly.

Came across this while looking up some of Eavan's poems. Her poetry is the prompt or theme for next Tuesday night's session at An Tobar and staying on the same subject if you type into Google for information on poems about emigration this one is very likely to come up. The number of songs on emigration are just too countless to measure and you won't have to go very far from your own front door to find one. Posted by 'The Maine Irish Heritage Center' and with thanks.

Eavan Boland: 24 September 1944 - 27 April 2020.

Poet Eavan Boland Reads 'Quarantine'

Something for National Poetry Day and given the times we live in. This poems takes us back to an even darker time during the Irish Famine of the 1840's and is read here by the author Eavan Boland,  who died this week on Monday the 27th. She was born on September the 24th 1944. The video was loaded to youtube by PBS the American Public Broadcasting Service in March 2012.