Show 384 – Emigration
(2025-08-02)

[This episode previously aired 8/17/24] The history of Ireland and America is intricately bound by stories of emigration and immigration. Driven by the Great Hunger in 1847, millions of Irish left their homes and sailed west in a desperate bid for a better life, and–if they survived the voyage on the coffin ships–often found themselves in unscrupulous work conditions or immediately conscripted into the US Civil War. Katie Marie and Joe put together an hour of songs and tunes commemorating and celebrating the fortitude and determination of those journeys.

The artists this week: Lúnasa; Tom Delany; Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne; Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara Ó Faoláin; Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine; Tradify; Killarney; Joe Heaney; Tony Linnane; Karan Casey & John Doyle; Muireann Ní Shé; Shantalla; Caitlin Nic Gabhann; Frank Harte & Donal Lunny; and Burning Bridget Cleary.

Our FairPlé score this week: 40

Playlist:

#	Track	Artist	Release
1	Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses	Nuala Kennedy	Behave the Bravest
2	Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore	Lúnasa	Cas
3	The Eavesdropper, The Morning Star, My love is in America	Tom Delany	The Lark’s Call
4	The Boys of Barr na Sráide	Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne	Live at Fylde
5	Green Fields of America-Within a Mile of Dublin	Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara Ó Faoláin	Beo
6	Thousands Are Sailing To Amerikay	Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine	Parallel Lines
7	The Rolling Wave, Craig’s Pipes	Tradify	Take Flight
8	The Maid of Coolmore	Killarney	Pull the Knife
9	Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses	Nuala Kennedy	Behave the Bravest
10	A Stór Mo Chroí	Joe Heaney	Say A Song
11	The Green Fields of America-The Bloom of Youth (Reels)	Tony Linnane	Ceol na Fidle
12	Sailing Off to the Yankee Land	Karan Casey & John Doyle	Exiles Return
13	The Green Fields of Canada	Muireann Ní Shé	Éistigh Liomsa Sealad
14	John Riley	Shantalla	Seven Evenings, Seven Mornings
15	The Leeside Sessions-the Reel With the Beryl-John Naughton’s Green Field’s of America	Caitlin Nic Gabhann	Caitlín
16	Sailing Off To The Yankee Land	Frank Harte-Donal Lunny	The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland’s Great Hunger
17	Pipe Set- Over the Isles to America-Miss McLeod’s	Burning Bridget Cleary	These Are the Days