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Michelle Branch – part Irish through her father [1] Laura Branigan – singer-songwriter and musician; Jeff Buckley – estranged son of Tim Buckley; Tim Buckley – father was the son of Irish immigrants; Chris Byrne – pop musician [2] Mariah Carey – pop musician [3] Aaron Carter – singer and Nick Carter's brother
In the eighties several high-profile Irish artists emigrated to the US, including Mary Black, Dolores Keane and Maura O'Connell. At the same time groups sprang up in America to play Irish music at a professional level. Mick Moloney founded Green Fields of America in 1977 to bring together immigrant Irish and native-born players of Irish music ...
This is a list of notable Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American .
In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Peter Jones discovered a collection of century-old letters in his parents' attic in Bethesda, Maryland. [1] [2] The letters had been sent by his great-great-great grandfather, Byran Hunt, to his son, Jones' great-great grandfather, John Hunt, [a] who had emigrated from Kilkelly, County Mayo, to the United States in 1855 and worked on the railroad.
During the mid-19th century, Irish immigrants worked to build railways in the United Kingdom and the United States. The song reflects the work that thousands of Irish section crews did as track layers, gaugers, spikers, and bolters. [8] The song begins in 1841, during the time of the Irish diaspora.
The song's narrator is emigrating from Ireland to America, and the song is both a meditation on this and a statement of purpose. Some versions have Australia and not America as the emigrant's destination. [1] The song is played in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's exhibit on Kennedy's Trip to Ireland. [1]
Ger Corrigan alleged that Shay Black, brother of Irish musician Mary Black, "hijacked" the song and claimed a co-writing credit while failing to acknowledge Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys' authorship of the original version, a charge Black denied. [5] [6] [7]
"Thousands Are Sailing" was one of the inspirations for the graphic novel Gone to Amerikay, by Derek McCulloch and Colleen Doran. [2]The first few seconds of the song serve as a repeating sample in Berry Sakharof's song 'White Noise' (Hebrew: רעש לבן, Ra-ash Lavan), from his 1993 album "Signs of Weakness".