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The Famine Suite : (v) Cork 1854 - The Voyage

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

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The Voyage - In 1854 my great great grandfather Michael O'Loghlen, his wife Ellen and three children under the age of 7, set sail in the "Joseph Rowan" for Port Adelaide, South Australia. It was a place in which he had no relatives or friends. The colony was 18 years old. My other great grandfather John Henry Cahill repeated the same journey eleven years later . He was 17.

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The Famine Suite : (v) Cork 1854 - The Voyage

Like ghosts at dawn we stood on the quay
the mists in the the mountains, the surge of the sea
and the sun lost behind the clouds.

Gone were the gleans, the rinee, the reels
the mist in the mornings, the Cotters, the creels
and the sun lost behind the clouds.

Six months we sailed through tempest and gales
with stars unfamiliar we drifted away
from the land lost behind the clouds.

And in the clear light of morning
there we saw
Terra Australis
our future is born.

* * * * * *

In this land of the vast horizon
searing sun and the smell of sweat
following the plough shear
ever on and on and on and on ...............

From the land of a thousand fathers
through the seas of a million dreams
towards our children's children
we move on and on and on and on .........

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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, keyboards, whistles, vocals

Stephanie Graeber : Violin

Suzannah Graeber : Violin

Angelee Theodoros : Cello, lead vocals

Harry Theodoros : Vocals

Anne Dormer : Vocals

Jack Brennan : Northumbrian pipes

Jacqui Yeo : Vocals

Anthony Wilson : Didjeridu

Music and words written by Gavin O'Loghlen

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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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