This week, Katie and Joe gathered songs and tunes about people leaving their homes to escape violence, poverty, or hunger with the desperate hope of finding a better or safer life elsewhere. The songs not only lament an emigrant leaving home, but also the heartache of those left behind. Although some of the tunes and songs do sound happy, there’s always the hint of sadness at leaving home and facing uncertainty, knowing that they likely would never return.We play tracks from?Len Graham, Arcady, Sweeney’s Men, and Dick Gaughan, amongst others, and we even have some releases new to the station from Artisan Row, Adam Agee & John Sousa,?and?FullSet.
Playlist:
| # | Track | >Artist | Release |
| 1 | The Rambling Irishman | Len Graham | Over the Hills & Far Away |
| 2 | Australian Waters | Altan | Runaway Sunday |
| 3 | Stor Mo Chroi | Sean Keane | A Portrait |
| 4 | The Irish Emigrant, Wearing of the Green, Irish Rover, Minstrel Boy | Leo Rowsome | (78 RPM from Internet Archive) |
| 5 | Farewell to Belfast | Adam Agee & Jon Sousa | Ceol na gCarad |
| 6 | Green Fields of Canada | Déanta | Déanta |
| 7 | He Thinks of His Past Greatness | Sean Doyle | The Light and the Half-Light |
| 8 | Bridget Donaghue | Danú | All Things Considered |
| 9 | Song: Monk McClamont’s Farewell to Articlave | Artisan Row | Wild Winds |
| 10 | Dunmore Lasses-My Love is in America | Niall Keegan | Wooden Flute Obsession volume 1 |
| 11 | Skibbereen | Joe Heaney | The Road From Connemara |
| 12 | Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore (Feat. Colm O Caoimh) | Mick Mcauley | Highs And Bellows |
| 13 | The Boys Of Barr Na Sraide | Arcady | Many Happy Returns |
| 14 | Standing on the Shore | Sweeney’s Men | Sweeney’s Men-The Tracks of Sweeney |
| 15 | Farewell To Nova Scotia | Bill Jones | Two Year Winter |
| 16 | Paddy’s Lamentation | Nuala Kennedy | Noble Stranger |
| 17 | Cathain | Gráda | Endeavor |
| 18 | Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still | Eamon O’Leary And Jefferson Hamer | The Murphy Beds |
| 19 | The Maid Of Culmore | Paddy Keenan & Tommy O’Sullivan | The Long Grazing Acre |
| 20 | Thousands Are Sailing To Amerikay | Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine | Parallel Lines |
| 21 | Leaving Brittany | Celtic Fiddle Festival | Play On… |
| 22 | City of Chicago | Frank Harte & Donal Lunny | The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland’s Great Hunger |
| 23 | Ffarwel I Blwy’ Llangywer | Daffyd Iwan | Canueuon Gwerin |
| 24 | Eliza Lee | The Black Family | Time for Touching Home |
| 25 | A Chomaraigh Aolbhinn O | Solas | The Words That Remain |
| 26 | Ghost of Tom Joad | Martyn Joseph | Run to Cover |
| 27 | The Green Fields of Woodford | FullSet | Notes After Dark |
| 28 | Wee C Whistle Set | Nuala Kennedy & Mike Bryan | A Wee Selection |