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Johnny Seoighe

from Anamnesis by Síle Denvir

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Composed during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland, this song is a satire on Johnny Seoighe, the relieving officer who controlled the food supply of meal at the time. There are very few songs about the famine, and there was a reluctance to sing this particular song until quite recently. It is, however, a very sad and dark song in how it describes the refusal of entry for this particular man and his family into the workhouse, a place where only the most desperate would have gone. His emotional description of feeling tired and tormented in the second verse is particularly powerful:
‘I am tired, tormented, impoverished
Tattered and torn from walking
And, Oh, Mister Joyce the workhouse is full
And will let no man in, no more now.’

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from Anamnesis, released March 31, 2023

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Síle Denvir

Síle Denvir is a sean-nós singer and harpist who is deeply influenced by her upbringing in the west of Ireland Connemara Gaeltacht where she was surrounded by music and song from an early age. A native Irish speaker, her singing is very much rooted in the ancient style of sean-nós or old-style Gaelic singing, and she has the ability to make the local global through her ethereal performance style. ... more

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