A haunting tribute to Irish soldiers who served in foreign wars, this (maybe?) O’Carolyn piece has a twisty history that takes us all the way from the Sliabh Luachra region of Ireland to the banks of the rolling Danube in Austria.
Artistic advisor: J. Calvert Orem
Image by ben pook
In September 1828, a small boat was on its way to Galway from Anach Cuan. After a goat stomped a whole in the bottom, the boat sprang a leak and 30 people on board sank into the river merely a couple hundred yards from shore. The tale survives as a song and air as well as with a memorial dedicated to those who perished at the dock of Anach Cuan. Eventually made into a poem, the tale is one of devastating yet tangible loss.
The remains of the fated vessel, the caislean nua. credit to anglingcharts.com
