HARD TIMES, by The Irish Brigade, Madison, WI USA recorded live May Day 2005

A famous old American song written by Stephen Foster, whose ancestry was from County Derry, Ireland.
Although not actually an Irish song, it is a perfect song to remember the millions who died, suffered and emmigrated during the so called "Potoato Famine" , more properly called in Irish "An Gorta Mor" (The Great
Hunger), for there was no famine. The landlords and British government left the poor to starve to death or emmigrate in order to clear the land for larger scale farming. Between 1845 and 1850 the population or Ireland
fell from about 8 million to about 4 million. Of that loss of four million persons, the best estimates range that
about 2 million died and 2 million emmigrated, most to the USA and Canada.
Recorded live at the Irish Brigade reunion concet on May Day 2005 at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, Wisconsin. Karen Andersen (RIP) plays keyboard and sings lead vocal.

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