The people whom Aidan O’Hara recorded were 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th generation Newfoundlanders. Nevertheless, their repertories included a number of songs that remembered Ireland in a variety of ways. There were nostalgic songs that expressed longing for a far-off home in Ireland, but also political songs, songs of forced migration, comic songs, and songs that simply mentioned places in Ireland.

This playlist brings together this diverse variety of “Irish songs” to demonstrate the range of ways in which Ireland was recalled and imagined in song.