Name: The Famine Suite : (iii) Winter 1847
Duration: P00H05M07S
Description: The winter of 1847 was the coldest and wettest in the 19th century. It followed the total destruction of the potato harvest. One million Cotters died. An eyewitness account claims that the west coast of Ireland consisted of "huts of shivering wretches starving to death". The most commonly heard cry from children was "Ochras" - hungry.

The Famine Suite : (iii) Winter 1847

from In the Home of my Ancestors by Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest

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The winter of 1847 was the coldest and wettest in the 19th century. It followed the total destruction of the potato harvest. One million Cotters died. An eyewitness account claims that the west coast of Ireland consisted of "huts of shivering wretches starving to death". The most commonly heard cry from children was "Ochras" - hungry.

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The Famine Suite : (iii) Winter 1847

Raining on the rooftops, beating at the door
huddled in the peat haze, frozen fingers thaw
autumns slipping away, winters waiting for our fall.

Harvest lies in tatters, pratie fields in ruins
empty children's bellies singing hungry tunes
and its slipping away feels like hope has left us all.

Ucrach

Hungry

Raining on the rooftops, famine at the door,
hollow eyed, forboding, never ending
shivering in shadows, bodies wrapped in rags,
starving in the silence, no salvation.

Death waits at the doorstep, whispers through the walls
calls his children to him, unrelenting
stolen under darkness, buried under stone
its time to cut the cord, to leave our farms, our homes.

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from In the Home of my Ancestors, released September 17, 1997
Gavin O'Loghlen : Acoustic and electric guitars, drums, bass, percussion, Prophet 5 and Arp keyboards, vocoder, Hammond organ, whistle, lead vocals

Stephanie Graeber : Violin

Suzannah Graeber : Violin

Angelee Theodoros : Cello, lead vocals

Jacqui Yeo : Vocals

Malachy O'Reilly : Voice

Music and words written by Gavin O'Loghlen & Anne Dormer

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Gavin O'Loghlen Australia

Cotters Bequest is a seven piece progressive Celtic band playing 28 instruments including Highland, Uilleann, Northumbrian and Scottish smallpipes, Irish whistles, violin, cello and accordion wrapped in layers of acoustic and electric guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies.

In the style of "a Celtic King Crimson..a Pink Floyd with bagpipes.. with a sprinkling of Peter Gabriel." ... more

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