Ciara Considine: Song Info

This song arose from a series of historical letters found in an attic in the USA - letters between an Irish immigrant and his father. They discuss events in Kilkelly village, Co Mayo, after the Great Famine of 1847 in which 1 million people died and 3 million emigrated. The father repeatedly asks in vain for his emigrant son to come back home. Some 120 years after they were written, the letters were discovered and set to song by Peter Jones.