Oliver Sings Skibbereen

This Irish a sad song, reflecting on the period of the 1840's to the 1850's. when millions of irish people died of hunger, during a time of full and plenty.

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• famine
• genocide
• pain
• suffering
• hunger
• emigration
• shame

[digitalkicks]

thanx for this-An old farmer Bob Reagan from Castledonovan used to sing this after a few katy dalys way back when...best version i've found on the net yet.

I've often been to the Abbeystrowry cemetery, it makes me sick to think of what the 'british empire' is responsible for

[number1irishmusic]

@digitalkicks thanks for the comment, i remember climbing the castle at Castledonovan as a child, they used to have sport days there when i was going to school in drimoleague.

Slan as mise Oilibear.

[kilrushlady]

I walked this cemetery in 1998 - learning that my great grandparents (the Sullivans of Mardyke St and Collins of Townsend St) are buried there in unmarked graves. It was then I really sensed the meaning of what this song represents! Eileen Sullivan Tormey

[number1irishmusic]

Thanks for viewing my clip of Skibbereen, if ever you are in Ballydehob, visit a pub called The Irish Whip, owner Barry O' Brien, has a pot in his bar that was used to feed the people in the Skibbereen poor house, Slan Go Foil, as Oilibear

[countdanzigbathory]

Fad agus a bheidh Gaeilgeoir amháin beo, ní bhfaigh Éire na nGael bás

[number1irishmusic]

Gur raibh maith agat, agus saolach an poblacht.

[Jimi705]

Daniel,

The Brits shipped the Barley and Wheat out of IReland under armed guard.  Not a genocide by modern terms, but they certainly starved our ancesters to death!

Slan go foil a chara

[Saoirse89]

no other word besides genocide can be used to describe the famine. maybe the blight wasn't deliberate but the food removal was.

[3tangle3]

@number1irishmusic your wrong the original population was actually peaking at 14 million not 8, census data was rubbish in those days

[Perter43]

My own G/G/Grandmother Ellen Flynn is a product of those days.. I wish I could trace her parents ..

[daydreamer61602]

oh i agree that secrets revealed 1 movement myspace. has the best version of this grt song on there its, simply outstanding..

[josparkes1]

So so sad and we can only imagine the inspeakable pain and hurt that ended there at Skibbereen, when those victims must have felt so alone and friendless. I paid respects to the Famine Statues in Dublin this year down by the River Liffey.

[secretsrevealed1]

no secrets revealed 1 movement is d best version of this great song check it out all irish music fans

[andyfedel]

very moving video.  thank you.

[clowntime99]

gout u fuckin english prick !!!