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1. The concept of a single CD or multi-track recording focusing on a single melody has always seemed out of reach -- at least in a manner that would hold me in rapture from beginning to end. This CD did the job! In spades! Who could imagine the likes of Al Hirt, James /5(20).

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2. Seamus Kennedy discography and songs: Music profile for Seamus Kennedy.

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3. Seamus Kennedy, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been entertaining audiences all over the United States for the past 27 years. With a ready w.

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4. Sep 25,  · Although the song “Danny Boy” has come to symbolize the Irish Diaspora and Irish national pride, its author was not Irish at all. Frederic Edward Weatherly () was a busy English lawyer who also wrote novels, children’s books, libretti, and the lyrics to some ballads and songs.

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5. Apr 16,  · Wyclef Jean, the lead singer of the hip-hop group the Fugees, apparently a favorite of Mr. Kennedy's, was chosen as the soloist for the ceremony and sang the Jimmy Cliff reggae song ''Many Rivers to Cross.'' His favorite Irish song “Carrickfergus”.

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6. Get all the lyrics to songs by Seamus Kennedy and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.

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7. In Bath, Somerset in , English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly initially wrote the words to "Danny Boy" to a tune other than "Londonderry Air". After his Irish-born sister-in-law Margaret (known as Jess) in the United States sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in (an alternative version of the story has her singing the air to him in with different lyrics), Weatherly.

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