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Ireland in Story and Song

My musical and storytelling adventures in - and about - Ireland.

Ireland in Story and Song

The Needle and the Haystack: Searching for Bridget Sweeney McDonnell

June 30, 2022 • Kathleen McDonnell

Storytelling and Song about my search for my Great-Grandmother, who left Ireland at the height of the famine in 1847. The opening bars of "Lord Mayo" played by Duncan Cameron.