This is a new song based upon my research about the famine period - a civil war song. CLICK To LYRICS.

I have read a lot about the Irish in the Civil War. This was the experience of some of my Irish Catholic ancestors ... why did so many oin and fight so hard for a country to which they were not native?? There are a number of credible answers, I suppose - but the irish Catholics (in fact ANY Catholics) were exactly welcomed with open arms but pre-CW America. Some believe this helps explain their deep commitment to the US Civil War; they wanted to prove their value as US citizens.

Anyway - the new Irish arrivals fought fiercely, in great numbers, on BOTH sides.