Discover songs connected with County Leitrim through lyrics, recordings, singers, sources and stories. This growing collection brings together songs preserved in archives, carried within families and communities, and returned to living circulation through the work of The Leitrim Larks.
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Ballinamore
The song is a wonderfully exaggerated piece of political satire, inspired by an RTÉ investigation in the Ballinamore area during the speculation surrounding the disappearance of the racehorse Shergar. The…
Lovely Corranmore
“Lovely Corranmore” is an emigration song expressing a Leitrim exile’s longing for home. Its narrator recalls leaving from Sligo Bay to seek a living in America and contrasts the factories,…
Rossinver Braes/ The Lovely Melvin Side
“Rossinver Braes”, also known as “The Lovely Melvin Side”, is a song of emigration and longing for home. Its verses praise the landscape and people of Rossinver and Lough Melvin,…
The Slopes of Selton Hill
The Slopes of Selton Hill was written by the late Michael Whelan, historian and native of Aughavas, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Selton Hill Ambush. On 11 March…
The Maid from Castlefore
During The Leitrim Larks’ 2024 Heritage Week Song Tour, we stopped at Castlefore Lake to sing, admire the landscape and explore some of the area’s history. From the fifteenth century,…
Farewell Bornacoola
Farewell Bornacoola is an emigration ballad written by Molly (Reynolds) Connor. In the tradition of many Irish emigration songs, it recalls scenes from the writer’s childhood around Bornacoola in south…
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