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Here also are resources used for this project

Sound recordings

Farewell My Own Dear Native Land
Songs of Exile and Immigration
Topic Records

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Two records -
Farewell To Erin
and Sail Og Rua

Both by Dolores Keane and John Faulkner
Green Linnet Records

Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
Planxty
Shanachie records

Lost in the Loop
Liz Carroll
Green Linnet records

Farewell to Evening Dances
Colm O'Donnell
Bogfire records

On Video

Out of Ireland
Produced by Ellen Casey Wagner and Paul Wagner
Directed by Paul Wagner.

Examines the history of the 7 million Irish who emigrated in the 18th/19th centuries who emigrated in the 18th/19th/20th centuries and includes the causes for the exodus.

This is a beautiful video and a book by the same name, Out of Ireland, is also available. It has many beautiful and touching photos as well.

Books

Surplus People: The Fitzwilliam Clearances
By Jim Rees
about how small tenant farmers were driven out of Ireland during the famine period

The Great Shame
By Thomas Kenneally
about how the Irish were forced into Australian exile against their will

Paddy's Lament
By Thomas Gallagher
A history of the famine period and it's aftermath, emotional and psychological as well

Emigrants and Exiles
By Kerby A. Miller
about the Irish exodus to North America

The Great Hunger
By Cecil Blanche Fitz et al.
about the famine

The Famine Ships
By Edward Laxton

Thousands are Sailing: A Brief Song History of Irish Emigration
By John Mouldon
Very informative and interesting with lots of good songs

Songs of Irish Emigration
By John Wright
This is out of print but you can find it in libraries still. An amazing book stocked with pages and pages of lyrics.

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