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Thread #4131   Message #1069631
Posted By: GUEST
10-Dec-03 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Isle of Innisfree (Richard Farrelly)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ISLE OF INNISFREE
Hi NoMattch,

The song has nothing whatsoever to do with the island Isle of Innisfree in Co. Sligo about which W.B.Yeats wrote.

You obviously have not read the first three postings by Gerard Farrelly, son of the composer of the song, "The Isle Of Innisfree".

His father was writing about Ireland, not a tiny island in Sligo. He was using the word "Innisfree" as a metaphor, another name for Ireland.