Go Domhain I Do Chuimhne | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Go Domhain I Do Chuimhne, there is no shortage of Irish songs about British mistreatment of the Irish, it took 170 years for someone to create a whole album

Last post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #GoDomhainIDoChuimhne Más féidir linn cuimhniú,
Is teacht ar an tuiscint, Is Más féidir linn tuiscint, Maith an croí (Good the heart) woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/19/g...

Declan O’Rourke Great Saint Lawrence River | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Great Saint Lawrence River Before the Famine Ireland numbered 8 million. A million people died between 1846-1851 and 2,000,000 emigrated

12thpost on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke
#GreatSaintLawrenceRiver Seek me not among the tombstones, for I sleep beneath the waves, or lie
with friends and family, in some lonely unmarked grave.
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Declan O’Rourke Connaught Orphan | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Connaught Orphan O'Rourke returns to the Great Famine's horror and its helpless young victims with The Connaught Orphan.

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#Childrenof16 #ConnaughtOrphan #Quakers #CentralReliefCommittee #WilliamEFoster If they see me
with your nice new clothes, They'll think I'm telling lies
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Declan O’Rourke Johnny Hold Lantern | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Johnny Hold Lantern The album displays a group of eight. We could easily misinterpret the scene as that of a rescue. It is not.

10thpost on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #JohnnyandtheLantern Young Johnny’s hands were freezin’, But he held the lantern high, As the dead man lay there gazin', And the flame danced in his eyes. woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/16/d...

Declan O’Rourke Villain Curry Shaw | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Villain Curry Shaw It is easier to mistreat others as long as we paint "them" as inferior, non-human. The British did just that with the Irish.

9th post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke excoriates captain of the cowards #TheVillainCurryShaw as Bob Dylan did to Wm Zantzinger #coffinships #PassengerAct #Hannah #WilliamGraham #CabotStrait woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/15/d...

Declan O’Rourke Rattle My Bones | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Rattle My Bones, Starvation, the death of loved ones, the mistreatment of children, and political laissez faire are no laughing matters

8th post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #RattleMyBones, Providence chose to wean us from life, With the longest, and slowest, and bluntest of knives. (No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden) woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/14/d...

Declan O’Rourke Laissez Faire | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Laissez Faire, The notion that one should love your neighbor as yourself is obviously as old as the milk of human kindness.

7th post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #LaissezFaire Sir #CharlesTrevelyan "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson" woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/13/d...

Declan O’Rourke Mary Kate | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Mary Kate, As much as we listeners might want to skirt the pain and however gently presents "Mary Kate" to us, it is an arrow to the heart.

6th post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #MaryKate #HenryGrey famine of hopelessness, And Too-ria my Mary Kate woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/12/d...

Declan O’Rourke Indian Meal | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Indian Meal, It is easy to think that during the Great Irish Famine--caused mainly by the potato blight--that there was no other food available

5th post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke #Indianmeal #VanDiemensLand #NicholasCummins While here on the works we make botharin bui, For the yella’ or barely a shillin’ a piece. woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/11/d...

Declan O’Rourke Buried Deep | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Buried Deep

3rd post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #BuriedIntheDeep #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine @declanorourke Human ballast, Ach o mo bhroin. Famine ships, woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/09/d...

Declan O’Rourke Along Western Seaboard | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Along Western Seaboard

2nd post on #DeclanORourke's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine. #AlongtheWesternSeaboard We begged, we prayed, but no one listened. Great Emancipator #DanielOConnell @declanorourke woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/08/d...

Declan O’Rourke Chronicles Great Irish Famine | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Declan O'Rourke Chronicles Great Irish Famine, Clogman's Glen, Macroon, Ireland, Clachan lake, potatoes, William Butler Yeats, Terrible Beauty, Blight

It is time for my annual series of posts on #DeclanORourke 's 2017 masterpiece #ChroniclesoftheGreatIrishFamine. No other collection of tunes better expresses horror of an Gorta Mór. @declanorourke

Day 1: #ClogmansGlen woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/01/07/d...