Produced by Jacob Schjødt Worm
Engineered and Mastered by Jacob Schjødt Worm
Recorded at FinlandStudio (Aarhus, Denmark)

Written by Lucie Hendry

Lucie Hendry - lever harp
Dennis Iversen - electric guitar
Christoffer Skovhus - drums

A Time Gone By, A Time Will Come

A traditional slow air lament arranged by Peter Sheridan, with Olivia's haunting vocals highlighting the poetic beauty of the Irish Gaelic lyrics.

Slan Le Maigh

Excerpt from The Selfish Giant - Opening Music

Musicians:
David Delarre - guitar
James Patrick Gavin - Violin

Recorded by Zac Gvi

SLOW AIR (opening music)

• This lament if dedicated to the memory of the 545 children who perished at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse during the Great Famine between the years of 1847 and 1851.
• Composed (2018) and performed (2018) by Jim McKenna.
• November 7, 2017, Jim's composition and performance of "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" was included in the Kilkenny Famine Experience Memorial audio visual tour.   http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/video/kilkenny-news/284437/watch-new-s-story-of-kilkenny-famine-experience.html 
• Jim McKenna is a multi-instrumentalist and composer.  http://www.youtube.com/c/Jim-McKenna-Uilleann-Pipes 
• Dr. E. Moore Quinn wrote on the subject of the Irish Famine: "...a recently composed pipe lament by Jim McKenna entitled, 'Bridget O‘Donnel: A Victim of Famine'.  ...decries the interlocking set of awful truths that existed behind the journalists' reports and images that were published in the mid-19th century about the Famine."  [The Many Voices of Pilgrimages and Reconciliation, Reversing the Silence after 150 Years (CABI, October 2017) | Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing (CABI, April 2018)].
• Jim's composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" used in a trailer for "The Great Famine Podcast Series"    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE0NHC4TgU 
• Performs at the Musical Memorial at the Mother's Day Walk for Peace,  Louise D. Brown Peace Institute, Code Listen, Boston.  http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/   http://www.codelisten.org/new-blog/ 
• Featured in two episodes of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. 
• Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest). 
• Folk Song Society of Greater Boston Annual Concerts. 
• Irish Connections Festival (Singers' Circle) & St. Brigid Festival, 
   Irish Cultural Centre, Canton, Massachusetts. 
• Irish Christmas Mass, St. Augustine Chapel, South Boston, Massachusetts. 
• Jim McKenna is a fifth generation Irish American. His ancestors, Daniel McKenna (Armagh) and Ann Callahan (Cork), had emigrated to Boston during the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in 1850 and 1852 respectively.  Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan were married in Boston (Charlestown) on October 1, 1854.  Daniel, and his brother Neil, were two of the six founding members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Boston (American Society of Hibernians) on March 17, 1857.  This organization was formed "for the purpose of rendering assistance to the sick and disabled members of their society, and also of providing for the decent burial of the dead". 
• Jim's great granduncle from Drumkeeran Ireland, Thomas McPartlin, performed Irish traditional music on the banjo in Boston during the late 1800's.

Lament for the Children of the Kilkenny Workhouse · Uilleann Pipes

Josh Middleton is an London-based accordionist and composer specialising is composition for the stage and puppet theatre.

• Jim McKenna is a multi-instrumentalist  & composer.  Members of Jim's family, Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan, had emigrated to Boston during the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in 1850 (Armagh) and 1852 (Cork) respectively.   Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan were married in Boston (Charlestown) on October 1, 1854.  Daniel and his brother Neil were two of the five founding members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Boston (American Society of Hibernians) on March 17, 1857 (Incorporated March 27, 1861). This organization was formed "for the purpose of rendering assistance to the sick and disabled members of their society, and also of providing for the decent burial of the dead". Jim's great great uncle from Drumkeeran Ireland, Thomas McPartlin, performed traditional music on the banjo in Boston during the late 1800's. 
• Dr. E. Moore Quinn wrote on the subject of the Irish Famine: "...a recently composed pipe lament by Jim McKenna entitled, 'Bridget O‘Donnel: A Victim of Famine'.  The latter decries the interlocking set of awful truths that existed behind the journalists' reports and images that were published in the mid-19th century about the Famine.", Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing and The Many Voices of Pilgrimages and Reconciliation, Reversing the Silence after 150 Years., Mansfield College, Oxford University, Publisher CABI (April 2018 & October 2017); and A Human Rights Pilgrimage in Ireland: Commemorating the Doolough Tragedy in the Twenty-First Century. Publisher Inter-disciplinary Publications, Oxford, England, (July 2015) 
• November 7, 2017, Jim's performance of his composition
"Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" was included in the soundtrack of the Kilkenny Famine Experience Memorial audio visual tour
• Composer of "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel: A Victim of Famine" https://youtu.be/ehhk2nMmMZU 
• Composer of "Lament for the Children of the Kilkenny Workhouse" https://youtu.be/Zj4nVq2H3wY 
• Composer of "Lamento por los Niños en Jaulas - Lament for the Children in Cages
• CelticMusicPodcast: http://celticmusicpodcast.com/2015/213-uilleann-pipes-on-the-giants-causeway/ 
• CelticMusicPodcast: http://celticmusicpodcast.com/2015/209-memorial-day/ 
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• Jim's composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" used in a trailer for "The Great Famine Podcast Series"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE0NHC4TgU 
• Performed at the 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Mother's Day Walk for Peace, Louise D. Brown Peace Institute, Code Listen, Boston http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/  http://www.codelisten.org/new-blog/ 
• Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest) 
• 100 Thousand Poets & Musicians 2014, Exeter New Hampshire 
• Folk Song Society of Greater Boston Annual Concerts 
• Irish Connections Festival (Singers' Circle) & St. Brigid Festival, 
Irish Cultural Centre, Canton, Massachusetts 
• Irish Christmas Mass, St. Augustine Chapel, South Boston, Massachusetts

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