Celtic Woman: Isle of Innisfree
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Hello,
In response to comment by Dale, the Isle of Innisfree is not quite a reference to the poem by William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".
The Isle of Innisfree, Dick Farrelly was writing about is Ireland. The following is an extract from the book 'Picture The Quiet Man' by Des McHale -
"One piece of music however stands head and shoulders above all the others with which Ford chose to ornament his masterpiece, and that is Richard Farrelly's The Isle of Innisfree (spelled slightly differently from the village of Inisfree). The word "Innisfree" (= islead of heather) was clearly inspired by the famous poem by W.B.Yeats, 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' written in 1893; but while Yeats' Innisfree was mearly an uninhabited island in Sligo's Lough Gill, Farrelly's Innisfree represented all of Ireland as seen through the nostalgic eyes of an Irish emigrant. Both the music and lyrics of the song are perfectly in keeping with the theme of The Quiet Man and John Ford milked it for all it was worth."
Also in a radio interview with broadcaster, Peter Murphy on RTE Radio, Dick Farrelly himself said it was the island of Ireland he was writing about. He said he used the word 'Innisfree' as another word for Ireland.
See also:
http://www.joseflocke.co.uk/jose/DickFarrelly.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Farrelly
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