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Joe Heany was an Irish singer, born in 1919 in Áird Thoir, Cana in the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking community). After a difficult life travelling back and forth Ireland and UK, he emigrated to Manhatten after getting in contact with singers such as Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, and with them he prerecordet "The Road from Connemara".
In America, he worked as a gatekeeper, until being introduced to the Wesleyan…
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