“The Foggy Dew“ Performed by Jenny Holohan

Heres Jenny Holohan one half of the amazing Irish folksong duo “The Holohan Sisters“ performing “The Foggy Dew“ . “Foggy Dew“ was written by Canon Charles O’Neill, a parish priest of Kilcoo and later Newcastle, County Down, in 1919.[8] The music is from a manuscript that was in possession of Kathleen Dallat of Ballycastle[disambiguation needed]. That manuscript gives Carl Hardebeck as the arranger.[9] This song chronicles the Easter Uprising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause o
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