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“Only Our Rivers Run Free” is one of the greatest Irish ballads ever written. It’s from the pen of the mighty Mickey MacConnell from Bellanaleck, Co. Fermanagh.
The song has been recorded in over 50 different languages, and it’s easy to see why… it’s a gem !!
Mickey wrote the song when he was just 18 years old… one evening over a phone call, he told me the story of why he wrote it…
His father brought him to a peaceful march in Enniskillen when he was 10 years old, however, it turned sour with the crowd being beaten back by the RUC… Mickey’s father took Mickey and found shelter through the doorway of a pub. Mickey said he remembered looking up and seeing defeat in his father’s eyes, it was a sight that would never leave him… 8 years later, when he was 18 years old, that memory prompted Mickey to write “Only Our Rivers Run Free”…