Dolores Keane & Sean Keane - Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears

Track 7 of Celtic Heartbeat - A Winter's Tale.
I don't own the track or the artwork.

[@patrickmcquaide7611]

My great great grandfather emigrated to USA as a 14 year old during the tyranny of famine and penal laws but he came back to Ireland with his family and money and bought up land and opened a pub called the cotton ball in Mayfield he fought in American civil war on Yankees side . My great grandmother was born in America and I'm born and reared in Birmingham England oh how the wild geese have moved around . Cork city always my other home . God is good let's not forget our faith in Christ was always our strength through it all

[@overviewconcepts7801]

I hope you’re very proud

[@christophergeoghegan2901]

Best brother and sister combination that this country will ever produce. Legends

[@roisinguerin8857]

This is one of the only versions of this song that’s not over performed, just simple vocals with basic background music, absolutely incredible

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@CaseyKCRichards]

Born Irish but spent my life in California . It’s only now I’m Appreciation my Irish culture . Love this song . Maybe I’ll return to Ireland . In honor of my spouse Maury Hirshberg , everyday my heart bleeds . I miss and love you so much .

[@ronnynorthington2015]

My Irish ancestory sings from my bones everytime I hear this song...

[@lorrivaughn9066]

Mine too. Family came from County Cork. 🇮🇪❤️👏

[@kerryg100]

As an emigrant who returned after 20 yrs this song means a lot to me Sean would be enough but then you had to add Delores I was floored such soul thank you and may god bless you

[@kerryg100]

Love your sign MMA etc

[@kerryg100]

+MMAIrishFury I hear you man... i discovered UFC loved my boxing and music no i have become a mad Ufc fan of Ais the bash lovre Chris Stapelton....time well spent on youtube....

[@peterclaine4157]

The unique voices of Ireland, it's in our bones,

[@loistaylor6139]

Beautiful, thought-provoking song. It can be applied to immigrants from so many countries. Though I'm not Irish, I've visited Ireland 12 times. My paternal grandparents emmigrated (separately) from Hungary, speaking no English. Cheers to all immigrants who had the strength and faith to seek a better future.

[@maureenmartin4730]

15 years... on her own... how did they survive a totally different world. We should be on our knees thanking them for all they did for the ones at home. Scraping a few dollars to send home with a letter if they could write most pretending that things were great. And the homesickness ... bless them all. 😢❤

[@MaryMcNulty46]

Ah darlin you have romanticised this certainly beyond reality. Annie Moore was 17 not 15, her parents booked underage fare for her, she followed the rest of the family within a year of them going and tragically she married a bakers boy and became obese, had a number of children ending up dead by 50 being brought out of an upstairs window unable to be brought out any other way from their house to be buried never having left the impoverished lower East side Manhattan

[@maureenmartin4730]

Even if she was 17 and her two younger brothers were with her can you imagine what it was like for them???? Nothing to romanticise about there??? It’s belittling them to say so… not just Irish emigrants all emigrants leaving poverty stricken lives to try to better themselves in the USA …bless the USA 😢

[@dharding5510]

Moore arrived at Ellis Island from County Cork, Ireland, aboard the Guion Line steamship Nevada on January 1, 1892. Her brothers, Anthony and Philip, who journeyed with her, had just turned 15 and 12, respectively.[2][4] As the first person to pass inspection at the newly opened facility, she was presented with an American $10 gold piece from an American official.[4]

[@theresajacobs4823]

Always cry when hear this song. Remember the stories my parents told me about leaving Ireland and landing in NY.

[@franmiller2925]

Me too, especially now with all that is happening.

[@mckaylamyers6383]

me three

[@mckaylamyers6383]

I agree

[@plaidshawl9792]

I always cry too and I'm in feckin Ireland! 😂🤷‍♀️

[@silverbullag4759]

@@plaidshawl9792 😂😂😂☘

[@skullslace2426]

I was fortunate enough to visit Ireland twice so far, and I grew up listening to a lot of Dolores Keane. The feeling walking along the cliffs near howth, on the only sunny day we had during our school trip, listening to this... I truly left a piece of myself there.

[@LittleBearPaws]

Beautiful! Both Dolores & Sean’s voices are so pure ☘️💕

[@edwardmckenna234]

two brilliant artists

[@breigedougan6612]

Beautiful 🇮🇪

[@carollizc]

Heart-achingly beautiful. My two favourite singer, together. Love from Canada.

[@frankconway6760]

Chillingly beautifully sung by Sean and Dolores such rich voices.

[@ellieoleary8838]

Can relate to this as so many of my ancestors emigrated to the States during the great famine - but we don’t know happened to them - so sad

[@catherinemuirhead1745]

💔 listening to this and what our ancestors went through 🇮🇪

[@maryphelan9234]

My late hubby. Martin. Phelan. So. Enjoyed. Colones. Singing. . Beautiful. . Song. Isle. Of. Hope . Hope he is. Listening. From. Above. !!

[@aceilidh]

Daddy played the guitar and sang. Miss him.

[@CommentCritic]

My 3rd class teacher taught us this song. Today I am 17 years old, back in my home country. Got some beautiful memories from Ireland.

[@elaineorcastrayt5409]

Jakester! - The Darude Comment Critic I’m in third class now and I have been thought that every single day in school of third,

[@kenkinsella6426]

What a teacher

[@martinaguinnelly910]

Great great song and Dolores and Sean Keane make it the best!

[@newbrabird]

On The First Day On January, Eighteen Ninety-Two, They Opened Ellis Island And They Let The People Through. And The First To Cross The Treshold Of That Isle Of Hope And Tears, Was Annie Moore From Ireland Who Was All Of Fifteen Years. Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears, Isle Of Freedom, Isle Of Fears, But It's Not The Isle You Left Behind. That Isle Of Hunger, Isle Of Pain, Isle You'll Never See Again But The Isle Of Home Is Always On Your Mind. In A Little Bag She Carried All Her Past And History, And Her Dreams For The Future In The Land Of Liberty. And Courage Is The Passport When Your Old World Disappears But There's No Future In The Past When You're Fifteen Years When They Closed Down Ellis Island In Nineteen Fourty-Three, Seventeen Million People Had Come There For Sanctuary. And In Springtime When I Came Here And I Stepped Onto It's Piers, I Thought Of How It Must Have Been When You're Fifteen Years.

[@teresacahill9408]

Love Sean and Delores singing this song.Beautiful

[@kathleenwatson1406]

Best version with a brother and sister Sean and Dolores Keane, thank you . So beautiful.

[@annelynch3609]

Beautiful voices

[@Canoe571]

The best rendition out there. Best cadence, voices, pathos...backup group.

[@amp3cx10000a7jp]

Very melodious beautiful song ♪I am Japanese. Conflicts of hearts that leave their hometown for beautiful melodies and hope and sadness and mind their hometown. I was immigrated to Brazil in South America with full of Japanese hope. Many people who were frustrated. Only a few people succeeded. So I sympathize with this song.

[@claralacey5914]

Such a wonderful rendition of a beautiful song.

[@mustsee8983]

what a fab song,, so much history in it makes you proud to be irish,,

[@Ghrainne]

where is Ireland were you born

[@Ghrainne]

westmeath here

[@marylindaliz]

@@Ghrainne me too. Mullingar. Ancestors, Athlone and Mullingar. Some of them went through Ellis Island. I hope to visit it in 2020 please God.

[@eamonnobrien1410]

Great song two great voice

[@anonymouscommentator4530]

This is so underrated! Took me a long time to find

[@majxls6555]

Beautiful song i delicate this song to my recently deceased auntie this song will bring back memories

[@julieannenicadhala6275]

omg,,this is just so touching what great voices,,allways brings a tear to my eyes,just love them

[@cathalmullane4925]

Amazing song and singers I felt every word

[@arleneclyde9854]

SEAN AND HIS SISTER DOLORES KEANE SINGING ON HERE,I SAW HER SINGING,,GREAT..

[@aglaminor]

Genial. Había escuchado la canción en la magnífica voz de Sean y alguna vez tb en la de Dolores, pero hasta ahora no había escuchado esta versión a dúo...aunque me gustan los dos, soy algo más de Sean. Gracias por el video

[@Silverblade61]

Wonderful ! From Germany I Love Ireland the people and the music !!

[@angusmckenzie9622]

Let nobody of Irish heritage disparage America. In that dark time of, and immediately after, the Famine, America took in ours when the alternative was death by hunger, not only the Famine but the opportunity taken by absentee landlords for clearances.

[@patsyod]

What's not to like with Sean and Dolores. A beautiful song, sung by two great singers, fair play!

[@Al-qj1cb]

So lovely but sad as well ☘️ god bless the Irish

[@llort999]

Astounding perfomance....

[@trevorbawn7039]

Just passed this on to Pat Clerkin who's father left Newbliss to Liverpool for Ellis Island many years ago.Great to hear Sean and Dolores Keane together again.

[@franmiller2925]

Reminds me of my Granny who came in 1912 and left her Mother Anne Clerkin Sheridan behind. The bravery of it makes me cry.

[@PilarGonzalez-fo6pq]

Esta versión es absolutamente genial e insuperable. 🎼🎵 Mis felicitaciones desde España.👏👏👏👏

[@ninofrulli4709]

Ireland in the heart ❤💚💜

[@paulmurphy1750]

Wonderful

[@michaelfoley7204]

Absolutely fantastic lots of ❤❤❤

[@carolmcln5028]

I was lucky enough to see Sean Keene perform in person in Fresno, CA, of all places!

[@helenapetre]

He never turned up the night I went to see him at a sessions bar in Galway :(

[@laurentiusotanhermanto8423]

A good song...,applause. Thanks for share....

[@seaniemcgrath4557]

I love this song☺

[@jiminee1]

Lovely song....thanks for sharing !

[@432716]

nice one,,,happy days

[@dylanmeehan5802]

Brilliant song

[@badlanguageteacher2885]

Absolutely love this!

[@TomUcadia]

Isn't that just wonderful?

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Excellent.

[@nancyengland9400]

Just beautifully sang 😮

[@majxls6555]

Beautiful song

[@MarwaMarwa-ef7gy]

I love it even I don't know the story 😊

[@02887727356]

irish diaspora

[@brandonbyrne9777]

love it

[@jimcarroll7748]

high kings bl nllhan

[@sylmurphy3760]

A beautifully poignant ballad well done

[@margaretdillane7824]

lovely

[@manuc6698]

canción que te transporta a lugares que sólo tú conoces.... increíble

[@michaelmcgarry2551]

Brilliant

[@randybailin4902]

What did their parents feed these 2? Extraordinary voices.

[@nbenefiel]

I remember when they were De Danaan playing at the Baggot st Inn in Dublin, around 1971.

[@johnmckeon7998]

Nancy Benefiel chéers

[@Ghrainne]

wow . that is a long time ago. I can go back to the 1980'ies on Baggot St

[@321mcg]

Thank God America opened the door.

[@Ghrainne]

you damn racist. You were lucky that they came here. why you think because someone landed here they own the f...place . what a racist

[@tadhgfitzgerald2649]

@@Ghrainne what's wrong with you lmfao😂😂😂

[@CaseyKCRichards]

They need to reopen from all the undocumented . Stop using the undocumented as cattle as revenue . Free the undocumented including the many Irish living in America

[@TrishByrne]

Still happening 2day unfortunately for many young and old irish citizen here and abroad because there still poverty giving to us all working class family's elderly young and adding to it all now its not the government's island nor mine or ours it's gods 🙏 😢 shamrocks the luck of never giving up and hope for one and all ❤❤❤❤❤❤peace

[@couannbenner7849]

super...just super

[@bobhrfarm]

I sing this beautiful song by Brendan Graham; it could have been written about my great grandmother, Jenny Riordan, who came through Ellis Island when she was sixteen..

[@liamokeeffe693]

Liam o keeffe proud to be Irish when l hear that song class 🇮🇪

[@williamdecraene2047]

Very good

[@samdog01ful]

Ah so moving. Georgina Mid Ireland

[@andreasschlager9154]

The Queen of Ireland and her little brother

[@gangyan4883]

好暖的声音

[@adriankennedy9999]

Apt lyrics regarding those trying to reach freedom in Europe this present day.

[@kerryg100]

well spotted I concur. .....god bless the refugees.....

[@problematic7993]

isle of welfare

[@kerryg100]

+aluvium this comment does not merit a reply

[@seanbarry1050]

Kerry Evans

[@ellenhelly4337]

Very true

[@ronniegarvey]

Bríllant

[@rickharrington1766]

my moms name was Annie Moore! not the same girl, but my Grampa William Moore and his bride Mary , Molly comer immigrated in 1914. Grampa lied about his age and joined the us navy in Wii served and that lead him to a future here !

[@ron6820]

🍀💚💫

[@joanneleach4768]

The transit van

[@amineqannari5928]

On the first day of January Eighteen Ninety-two They Opened Ellis Island And they let the people through. And the first to cross the threshold Of the Isle of hope and tears Was Annie Moore from Ireland Who was all of fifteen years. Isle of hope, Isle of tears, Isle of freedom, Isle of fears, But it's not the Isle I left behind... That Isle of hunger, Isle of pain, Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home Is always on your mind. In her little bag she carried All her past and history And her dreams for the future In the land of liberty. And courage is the passport When your old world disappears ’Cause there's no future in the past When you're fifteen years. When they closed down Ellis Island In Nineteen Forty-three Seventeen million people Had come there for sanctuary. And in springtime when I came here And stepped onto its piers, I thought of how it must have been When you're only fifteen years.

[@timothymcgervey5401]

Friday, 1 January AD 1892

[@Paul-do3bs]

any1 one else here from school😂

[@Greendoor123]

Here

[@chrismcgreevy6015]

XXXdorito *big tom

[@chrismcgreevy6015]

Big tom

[@chrismcgreevy6015]

^big tom

[@maryphelan9234]

So sorry. Spelt. Donors. Wrong. .

[@wakeywakeypeeps3086]

Bet Ur Irish lol,?

[@timothymcgervey5401]

The monarch at the time was Queen Victoria. And the man in Ireland who represented her was Lord Lieutenant Lawrence Dundas, 1ſt Marqueſs of Zetland (AD 1889-1892).

[@ellbevlogsfilms7469]

a bit

[@peterflaherty8370]

Wonderful