Music and Musicians:Do they make 'em like that anymore?Posting 48

Fields of Athenry

One of my favorite Irish songs is (The) Fields of Athenry.

From what I've picked up online, "The Fields of Athenry" is an Irish folk ballad set during the Great Irish Potato Famine (1845-1850) about a fictional man named Michael from near Athenry in County Galway who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food for his starving family. The food he stole was "Trevelyan's corn". This is a reference to Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior British civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle.

I've already had this song appear in this blog last year. Click HERE to see and hear that blog post.

Following are some other renditions...













And finally, my rendition...


Thank you for listening.