"On the Bromielaw Quay" Irish Poem by an unknown author Poem animation

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Heres a virtual movie of a recitation of a rather charming nostalgic Irish poem "On the Bromielaw Quay". The author of this traditional poem/ballad is not known. The Broomielaw is in Glasgow. The Famine & Migration Seasonal Irish workers, especially from Donegal and neighbouring Ulster counties had regularly to and fro'd from Ireland to Scotland prior to 1840, but few observers could have predicted the massive influx that occurred as a result of the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1851. By 1848, the ...