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   rog.rosen@gmail.com to Tom Bruhns   
   Re: Help with 'Kilkelly Ireland'?   
   12 Jun 15 08:57:12   
   
   On Friday, March 2, 1990 at 3:29:29 PM UTC-5, Tom Bruhns wrote:   
   > muldoon@books.dec.com (Steve Muldoon - Correspondent-at-large) writes:   
   >   
   > >      From time to time I used to hear a song that I believe was   
   > >    titled 'Kilkelly, Ireland'. Since I moved however, I can no   
   > >    longer receive my favorite folk station. The song is written   
   > >    as if it were a series of letters from a father in Ireland   
   > >    to his son in America. The correspondence takes place over   
   > >    several decades, finally ending with the death of the father.   
   >   
   > Fiona Ritchie, one time she played this on "Thistle and Shamrock,"   
   > noted that it was based on letters found in an attic in (a house   
   > in) Washington, D.C. -- this is probably from liner notes.   
   > (I doubt the original letters were spaced out in exact decades ;-)   
      
      
   I still have shrink-wrapped copies of the vinyl LP on which Laura Burns and I   
   recorded "Kilkelly." Contact me at rog.rosen@gmail.com.   
      
   Roger Rosen   
      
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