Given the events of #Black47 in the #GreatFamine, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1847 a Dublin paper, the Nation, said it could not wish readers of #Ireland a #MerryChristmas, only its best wish "that no future Christmas shall ever find her so abject, so miserable, so enslaved as this."
This song was on SUCH heavy rotation during High School. Such a fantastic tune and a poignant description of the Irish diaspora in America. #Black47https://youtu.be/849FkMduwU0
#Black47 : I'm half way through it. Ooft. Deary me. I had no idea who made it when I started watching it as I didn't want to prejudice myself. Got about 20 minutes in & had to hit IMDB as I said this level of journeyman mediocrity can only be the Gen X set I came up with. Yup.