On Saturday at Northwest Folklife in Seattle, I purchased a copy of Mary Garvey's new CD about the Great Irish Potato Famine, entitled Songs for Our Ancestors: An Gorta Mór / The Potato Famine. The fourth cut is a song about Irish girls emigrating to Australia, and about the work of Carolyn Chisholm to improve their lives. I have never heard it, and my copy of the CD doesn't give any info on writer or singer. (All I can say for sure is the singer is not Mary Garvey!) Does anybody know anything about this (including you, mg! I know you're here somewhere!)? I sent it in mp3 to an Esperanto friend in Australia, and she said she's never heard it before. It begins

Oh, the young girls of Ireland are off to Australia
and no more on Eireann's green isle will they roam,
for Ireland's can't feed them, but Australia needs them
to marry, have children, and to settle for home...

Haruo