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Bahama Star · 06-06-2002, 06:53 AM

Kim wrote.
"A nice irishman, named Brendan Kelly, came up to me last Thursday and said, "I have a song I think you'd like
to hear". He says , "I think you'd find it interesting, since you like Gordon Lightfoot".

So he brings me the cd, today.
The Artist: Christy Moore, CD: Ride On, Date: 1984
The song of interest: Back Home in Derry, written by Bobby Sands, an irish political.

The song strongly resembles, The Wreck."

Kim, the Bobby Sands, I know was a member of the IRA who died in Prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike,he was 27 years of age at the time.

He was a noted poet, but it is unlikely he would have written Back Home in Derry before Gordon wrote "the wreck" in 1975.

Back Home in Derry is about Irish Convicts being transported to Australia in 1803.

They were bound for Botany Bay which is an inlet just south of Sydney Harbour. But later in the song they are in Van Diemen's Land which is now Tasmania, this is where the most hardened convicts were sent to Port Arthur.

Keep Smiling Ron.

[This message has been edited by catmanron (edited June 06, 2002).]

06-06-2002, 06:53 AM	#1
Bahama Star Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Oxnard, Ca. U.S.A. Posts: 89	Kim wrote. "A nice irishman, named Brendan Kelly, came up to me last Thursday and said, "I have a song I think you'd like to hear". He says , "I think you'd find it interesting, since you like Gordon Lightfoot". So he brings me the cd, today. The Artist: Christy Moore, CD: Ride On, Date: 1984 The song of interest: Back Home in Derry, written by Bobby Sands, an irish political. The song strongly resembles, The Wreck." Kim, the Bobby Sands, I know was a member of the IRA who died in Prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike,he was 27 years of age at the time. He was a noted poet, but it is unlikely he would have written Back Home in Derry before Gordon wrote "the wreck" in 1975. Back Home in Derry is about Irish Convicts being transported to Australia in 1803. They were bound for Botany Bay which is an inlet just south of Sydney Harbour. But later in the song they are in Van Diemen's Land which is now Tasmania, this is where the most hardened convicts were sent to Port Arthur. Keep Smiling Ron. [This message has been edited by catmanron (edited June 06, 2002).]