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Folk, Irish, singer-songwriter.

How the 1915 slaughter in Gallipoli of a young man from the Liberties inspired his great-nephew to record an album. Fiach Moriarty recorded his album in memory of Jack Kavanagh, who was 22 when he died from wounds sustained in one of the first World War’s most momentous battles

There were few days worse in the first World War for the Irish than the landings at Gallipoli in Turkey on April 25th, 1915. On board the River Clyde, a converted collier, were men from the 1st battalions of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the Royal Munster Fusiliers. They were in the vanguard of an attempt by the British and French governments to open a new front by taking the Dardanelles Strait in an attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

“Jack Kavanagh was a bit of an enigma in our family. My grandmother often told me about him, but my mother and her siblings had never heard of him. During Covid, I signed up to Ancestry.com and discovered all about Jack through his army records. I pieced this together with stories my grandmother had told me about him. I wrote the album chronologically, as I wanted to try to accurately track his life from the Liberties to Gallipoli. I included as much information about Dublin at that time to paint a picture of what it was like for a young man in Dublin in those turbulent times.” The vocals for the single were recorded in John Reynolds’s home studio in Enniskerry, using the same microphone Sinéad O’Connor used for her iconic version of  Nothing compares 2U.

Tracks:
01 - Faddle Alley
02 - Where Julia Lays
03 - We At Swim
04 - The Recruit
05 - March To North Wall
06 - Long Lost Penpal (feat. Jenna Nicholls)
07 - I'm For Gallipoli (feat. Damien Dempsey)
08 - Travelling Man
09 - The Raven's Wing

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGvwDgUcsQ