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http://www.npr.org/2016/01/27/464440907/the-thistle-shamrock-the-road-of-tears

January 21, 2016

Program 1704: The Road of Tears (January 21, 2016) Week 3 The story of the refugee is retold in different corners of the world with each passing era.  Along the trail, songs will bear witness to the true-life immigrant experience.  Today Battlefield Band, Mick Moloney and Mary Black join the artists continuing the tradition of singing their stories. Ely Parker/Miss Martin’s Wedding/The Primrose Lassies/Mr Galloway Goes to Washington…by Battlefield Band from The Road of Tears (Temple)  Pastures of Plenty…by Solas from Reunion - A Decade of Solas (Compass)  Paddy’s Lamentation/Ships are Sailing…by Mary Black from Long Journey Home  (BMG) Farewell and Remember Me…by Boys of the Lough from Farewell and Remember Me  (Shanachie Entertainment)   Farewell to St. Kilda…by The Whistlebinkies from Albannach  (Greentrax)   McKay Country (Sutherland)…by Kathleen MacInnes from Summer Dawn (Greentrax) Farewell to Ireland/Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore…by Dolores Keane, John Faulkner, Eamonn Curran from Farewell to Eirinn (Wundertute) ID excerpt: Ms Dynamite of Benbecula…by Battlefield Band from Out For the Night (Temple) The Road of Tears…by Battlefield Band from The Road of Tears (Temple)  Paddy Works on the Railway…by Mick Moloney from Far From the Shamrock Shore (Shanachie Entertainment) The Maids of Galway/The Reel of Rio/Coyne’s Return/Return to Miltown/Hunting the Boyne/Return of the Maids…by Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane, Seamus Eagan, Eileen Ivers, Robbie O’Connell from The Green Fields of America  (Green Linnet)  Stor Mo Chroi…by Sean Keane from Turn a Phrase (Kells Music)  The May Morning Dew…by Davy Spillane from The Sea of Dreams (Covert Records) The Maid of Mount Cisco/Farewell to Connaught/Farewell to Ireland…by Dolores Keane, John Faulkner, Eamonn Curran from Farewell to Eirinn (Wundertute) #Celtic