What Made You Cry Today?

[Ciaran]

Originally Posted by guihong

This was one of my Dad's favorite songs, about his ancestral home (well, he was everything in the UK) in Northern Ireland. I've thought of him a lot today.

My mum used to sing that song to me as a lullaby when I was going to sleep. She grew up in County Down, the Mournes country which the song is about so always had an affinity to the song. The underlying sentiment of the song relates to the Northern Irish diaspora and contrasts the beauty of the Mournes in Northern Ireland to life in London.

Slightly ironic for me that I should find myself in London all these years later and, of course, continually missing my Northern Ireland.