A Taste of Dear Old Skibbereen
September 8, 2008 by ivanmcc
My journey to work this morning was considerably enriched by Sinead O’Connor’s beautifully direct and unadorned rendition of Dear Old Skibbereen. I had been trying to gather my thoughts on the town’s upcoming A Taste of West Cork festival and the hopelessness of the famine time as captured in the song really struck home how appropriate it is that now each year the people of Skibbereen put their hearts and hands into celebrating their food. The famine will never be forgotten but I feel that from a culinary point of view West Cork can now rightly be claimed “a pleasant place wherein a prince might dwell”, as the reminiscing father in the song recalls.
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