Show 407 – Emigration
(2026-01-10)

posted in: Past Shows

This week, Katie Marie and Joe explore the songs and tunes surrounding emigration. Much of the Irish music about emigration focuses on the calamitous Great Hunger of 1847 and the desperate people who fled across the sea to the US and Canada to save their lives, or the petty criminals exiled across the sea.

The artists this week: Planxty; Diarmuid O’Brien; Burning Bridget Cleary; Paddy Keenan; Altan; Niamh Parsons; Lá Lugh; Glengarry Bhoys; Bridget McMahon; The Oyster Band; Frank Harte-Donal Lunny; and Deaf Shepherd.

Our FairPlé score this week: 50

Playlist:

# Track Artist Release
1 Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses Nuala Kennedy Behave the Bravest
2 The Green Fields Of Canada Planxty Cold Blow And The Rainy Night
3 Off To California The Navigator — Hornpipes Diarmuid O’Brien Cairde Cairdín
4 Stor Mo Chroi-Eddie Kelly’s Burning Bridget Cleary Pressed for Time
5 The Maids Of Culmore Paddy Keenan The Long Grazing Acre
6 Australian Waters Altan Runaway Sunday
7 Kilnamartyra Exile Niamh Parsons Blackbirds and Thrushes
8 Glen Where The Deer Is-The Ivy Leaf-The Dublin Lasses Nuala Kennedy Behave the Bravest
9 The Emigrant’s Farewell Lá Lugh Senex Puer
10 The Landed Immigrant Glengarry Bhoys Rhoots
11 Spancil Hill Bridget McMahon Celtic Woman
12 Bold Riley The Oyster Band Step Outside
13 Skibbereen Frank Harte-Donal Lunny The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland’s Great Hunger
14 Ah, Surely (Flagstone of Memories, The Pawn of Madness, Ah Surely) Deaf Shepherd Ae Spark O Nature’s Fire