{"id":91,"date":"2006-09-09T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/09\/green-and-red-of-mhaigh-eo"},"modified":"2006-09-09T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T11:51:00","slug":"green-and-red-of-mhaigh-eo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/green-and-red-of-mhaigh-eo\/","title":{"rendered":"Green and Red of Mhaigh Eo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danflies\/sets\/72157594276025283\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/98\/238332704_4347f80802_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Western Shore\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I arrived last night in Manchester wishing I was able to stay in Ireland.  In my search today for some info about the Co. Mayo football team I ran a cross this movie a guy made after his trip to Co. Mayo using the Saw Doctor&#8217;s song &#8220;The Green and Red of Mayo&#8221;.  The song and the photos collected do an excellent job of capturing the feeling driving around Mayo. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeward.com\/moviez\/gr.asp\">The Green and Red of Mayo &#8211; slideshow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Green and Red of Mayo<\/span> &#8211; lyrics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The green and red of mayo<br \/>I can see it still<br \/>It&#8217;s soft and craggy bogland<br \/>It&#8217;s tall majestic hills<br \/>Where the ocean kisses ireland<br \/>And the waves carress it&#8217;s shore<br \/>The feeling it came over me<br \/>To stay forever more<br \/>Forever more<\/p>\n<p>From it&#8217;s rolling coastal waters<br \/>I can see croagh patrick&#8217;s peak<br \/>Where one sunday every summer<br \/>The pilgrims climb the reek<br \/>Where saint patrick in it&#8217;s solitude<br \/>Looked down across clew bay<br \/>With a ringing of his bell<br \/>Called the faithful there to pray<br \/>There to pray<\/p>\n<p>Take me to clare island<br \/>The home of granuaile<br \/>It&#8217;s waters harbour fishes<br \/>From the herring to the whale<br \/>And now I must depart it<br \/>And reality is plain<br \/>May the time not pass so slowly<br \/>Before I set sail again<br \/>Set sail again<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived last night in Manchester wishing I was able to stay in Ireland. In my search today for some info about the Co. Mayo football team I ran a cross this movie a guy made after his trip to Co. Mayo using the Saw Doctor&#8217;s song &#8220;The Green and Red of Mayo&#8221;. The song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}