Fiddler’s Lament Blog

My favorite image of an Irish couple who I used to represent Sean's parents. I named them Darragh and Diedre McNally. Have you [...]

An estimated half-million Irish were evicted from their cottages by the British during the genocide of the 1850s and 1860s.  Unscrupulous landlords either applied a [...]

The secret hedge school In my early research into life in Ireland in the 1860s, I discovered the hedge school. Hedge schools [...]

The book started as the lead to one of my Tributary interviews entitled "An Irish Storyteller." Tributary was my online interview publication. "In the town [...]

  Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site Grosse Île was the first stop for thousands of Irish coming from Liverpool, England. [...]