"Four Green Fields" is a 1967folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in the New York Times as a "hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad". It is probably Makem's only composition to have truly entered the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
The song tells of an old woman who had four green fields, and how strangers tried to take them from her as how her sons died trying to defend them. At the end of the song, one of her fields remains out of her hands:
"But my sons had sons, as brave as were their fathers;
My fourth green field will bloom once again," said she
The song is interpreted as a parable of the British colonization of Ireland and the current status of Northern Ireland. The four fields are the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught. An ill digested lesson The Governess. ... Northern Ireland is one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ... Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh) is one of the four provinces on the island of Ireland. ... Alternate uses: See Munster (disambiguation). ... Leinster (Irish: Laighin) is the eastern province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. ... Connaught redirects here. ...
References
Tommy Makem press coverage (http://www.makem.com/tommy/tmpress.html)
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