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Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston

IRISH BOSTON

1939 – Today

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The Old Bog Road, Episode 190

This song is a nostalgic Irish ballad about an emigrant's homesickness while working in New York on Broadway. This experience is duplicated by many other ethnics after moving to the States. This Irishman was from County Kildare's Ferrans Lock in the boglands.

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