An Irish folk song about The Great Hunger - An Gorta Mór.

• Jim McKenna is a multi-instrumentalist & composer.
• November 2017, Jim's performance of his composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" was included in the of the Kilkenny Famine Experience Memorial audio visual tour.
• Jim McKenna is a piper & composer. Members of Jim's family, Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan, had emigrated to Boston during the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in 1850 (Armagh) and 1852 (Cork) respectively. Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan were married in Boston (Charlestown) on October 1, 1854. Daniel and his brother Neil were two of the five founding members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Boston (American Society of Hibernians) on March 17, 1857 (Incorporated March 27, 1861). This organization was formed "for the purpose of rendering assistance to the sick and disabled members of their society, and also of providing for the decent burial of the dead". Jim's great great uncle from Drumkeeran Ireland, Thomas McPartlin, performed traditional music on the banjo in Boston during the late 1800's. Jim great great aunt, from County Cork, Bridget married Callahan Daniel Murphy in Boston Nov 5, 1876 at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston.
• Dr. E. Moore Quinn wrote on the subject of the Irish Famine: "...a recently composed pipe lament by Jim McKenna entitled, 'Bridget O‘Donnel: A Victim of Famine'. The latter decries the interlocking set of awful truths that existed behind the journalists' reports and images that were published in the mid-19th century about the Famine.", Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing and The Many Voices of Pilgrimages and Reconciliation, Reversing the Silence after 150 Years., Mansfield College, Oxford University, Publisher CABI (April 2018 & October 2017); and A Human Rights Pilgrimage in Ireland: Commemorating the Doolough Tragedy in the Twenty-First Century. Publisher Inter-disciplinary Publications, Oxford, England, (July 2015)
• Composer of: "Lament for the Forgotten Irish of Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery" [ Ссылка ] "Lament for the Forgotten Irish of Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery" [ Ссылка ] "Lament for the Children of the Kilkenny Workhouse" [ Ссылка ] "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel: A Victim of Famine" [ Ссылка ] "Lamento por los Niños en Jaulas - Lament for the Children in Cages"

• CelticMusicPodcast: [ Ссылка ]
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• Jim's composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" used for soundtrack in promotional ad for "The Great Famine Podcast Series" [ Ссылка ]
• Performed at the 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Mother's Day Walk for Peace, Louise D. Brown Peace Institute, Code Listen, Boston [ Ссылка ]
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• January 2, 2020; arranged & performed Alex Brewer's "The Rose of Saratoga" on Alex's album "Unquoted."
• Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest)
• 100 Thousand Poets & Musicians 2014, Exeter New Hampshire
• Folk Song Society of Greater Boston Annual Concerts
• Irish Connections Festival (Singers' Circle) & St. Brigid Festival, Irish Cultural Centre,
Canton, Massachusetts
• Irish Christmas Mass, St. Augustine Chapel, South Boston, Massachusetts
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* UNESCO has designated the uilleann pipes on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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