> The famine occured in 1845\6 and during the Cromwellian era(1640's), the
> crown didn't exist...well, it existed but there wasn't a head to put it
> on...well, not one attached to a body anyway! The song seems to date from
> the 1880's when it appears on a ballad sheet under the title 'The fields of
> Athenry, a new song'.The melody does not appear in any of the early
> colletions that I have come across and the harmonic structure of the tune
> suports a more recent composition.
Right, that was a silly mistake on my part-- don't know why I wrote
that... Of course the tune is much more recent than that. In fact
there is a name mentioned in the song, Lord Trevelyan, which dates the
tune even more precisely (or at least the setting of it) to somewhere
between 1850-1928, I would say.
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