My Bonny Irish Boy

My Bonny Irish Boy is the focus of issue seven of Mail Club Práta. The recording I base my interpretation off of is rather hard to find, and is from the 1956 recording of the Rainey Family in Connemara, sung by Bridie Rainey. Having no link to the original, I will place here my own version of the song:

Túath- Irish Word Definition: https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/tuath

“Gone to America Letter" and Irish "Famine" Epigenetics: https://belindavigors.substack.com/p/part-one-epigenetics-and-the-generational

The Rainey Family Album listing: https://itmacatalogues.ie/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/41184

Roud Folk Index Entry - 565 - Bonny Irish Boy: https://archives.vwml.org/search/all:combined/0_50/all/score_desc/extended-roudNo_tr:565

Confessions of a Pagan Nun, Novel by Kate Horsey PhD - Great descriptions of the Túatha and Gaelic social structures: https://www.shambhala.com/products/confessions-of-a-pagan-nun-a-novel

Bonny Irish Boy Instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfYrYufR3Z0

Spancil Hill, same melody, perhaps a response from the Bonny Irish Boy: https://youtu.be/aqlLJXYtRWg?si=q0Tzi0aujwIcIRvM