Dreaming of Galway Bay

Today's video is brought to you courtesy of the tremendously talented singing ensemble, Celtic Woman. Chloe Agnew is the soloist for this particular number, Galway Bay. I am mad about these women, mostly due to the fact that their singing is so pure and lovely, it literally makes me teary. This performance was filmed last year, from Powerscourt House And Gardens in Wicklow, Ireland. I love how the audience recognizes the song during the introduction, applauds, and how Chloe gives them all a knowing wink!

You may have read this post I wrote about the visit Alan and I recently made to Ireland, the home of my ancestors. We've been back from that trip six years now, and I can honestly state that it's still the most beautiful place I've ever seen. I remember, as we drove through that gorgeous emerald countryside, thinking about the horrible potato blight that ravaged the land back in 1850. Desperate and starving, many families had no choice but to leave their family farms and the home of their ancestors to make a new life, in the United States and other neighboring countries. As I stood and marveled at those breathtaking rolling green hills, I couldn't fathom how difficult it must have been to leave a place so beautiful.

This song, I believe, was written by someone who has fled, and still dreams of his dear home back in Ireland. It always makes me a little weepy, especially when it's sung so movingly by the tremendously talented Chloe.  My favorite is the last verse where she sings:

"And if there is gonna be a life hereafter
And faith, somehow, I'm sure there's gonna be.
I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
In my dear land across the Irish Sea."  Nice!

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