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Episode 104 Irish Songs & Four Green Fields & The Rest of the Story
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Episode 104 Irish Songs & Four Green Fields & The Rest of the Story.
The song is about Ireland, presented as “the fine old woman”and its four provinces; Lienster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught presented as “the four green fields”. Ulster is presented as “taken” or occupied by the British who are presented as “the “strangers”. Makem sings about the fine old woman’s sons or the Irish people fighting and dying defending her Provinces. Its middle stanza is a description of the violence and deprivation experienced by the Irish, including the Northern Irish. The song ends like this, “But my sons have sons, as brave as were their fathers; My fourth green field will bloom once again," said she. So Makem at the end of the song, shows some promise regarding the fourth field’s freedom.
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