The Rich Man's Feast - mick blake

[@nancybaker4886]

Wow, just wow. These are my ancestors. I did not even know this until recently that my mothers family was Irish, Scottish and Cherokee so this ht me on so many levels. Very emotional.

[@johnmcelroy463]

Brilliant song, great lyrics & sadly all true.

[@joekeenan6435]

Props for the Choctaw mention!

[@vivianlemottee3291]

Your songs are amazing.🇦🇺♥️🇮🇪

[@noelgardiner]

Superb. "Soon the sight of a Celt on the banks of the Shannon will be as rare as the sight of a Redskin on the banks of the Hudson". #Genocide Not Hunger.

[@higginsba]

@marycourtney - another brilliant song written by Mr Blake that aligns w your own views and songs you sing. The Choctaw Nation’s contributions acknowledged 💔 Your Fri night FB crowd would benefit from hearing this among your repertoire.

[@kevinmcivor5762]

Love to see a Mary Courtney/Mick Blake collaboration. Legends both.

[@emzo91]

Fantastic song. It will inspire those involved in the campaign to have a memorial to those brave people of The Great Hunger erected in Glasgow.

[@marykelly7169]

Well sung Mick cheers for you

[@damienflinter4585]

Maith fear thú, Mick.

[@DAMOSTUDIO]

Timing is great and we do not refer to the tune itself.Although this is wonderful,not to mention the history lesson.Well done Mick..

[@RobbieDunn]

Great song a history lesson love it

[@Fi88442]

Brilliant song Mick

[@vivianlemottee3291]

Where have you been hiding these songs Mick? Brilliant.😊

[@smeejit]

"It's not well known that the congregation of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond donated approximately $40 towards Irish Famine Relief in 1847. Around 2,000 members of the congregation were slaves, and only 150 were free." Source: Liam Hogan

[@vivianlemottee3291]

Is that Richmond Virginia, US?

[@musicman5678]

mick we need more people like you .. you tell the truth

[@civic23238]

Sad and accurate great job Mike talented man

[@MrBowsmith]

Powerful Mick

[@ErinScope]

Great song

[@sjswords]

Brilliant!

[@roughcutfilms3787]

great stuff well said ,sung etc

[@FlamingBeret]

Our day will come soon, and their there day will become alls

[@vivianlemottee3291]

Is that Richmond Virginia US?

[@surfieward]

Brilliant and poignant Mick/ seeya-himself-downunder

[@untonsured]

The Catholic middle class, and the Catholic middle class shop owners were, in a lot of cases, just as callous, cruel and stingy, as Queen Victoria and the British government of the day. You need a few extra verses. :)

[@damienflinter4585]

Indeed...and some of the Protestant landlords went down with their tenants... ..but the point I think the song makes is that the agribusiness extraction of food created the famines, and our current crop of gomb€€n qui$£ings are just riding y€ o£d€ £andlord's nag in the same monopoly game, now run by multinationals like Cargill and N€$tlé. Meanwhile Coveney spouts his 'feeding forty million people' platitudes as his brother is CEO of Gr€€ncore....not quite the Peter McVerry soup-run. We've dumped the Roman Mass-hypnosis...the trick will be to retain the humanist catholicity baby swamped by all that sectarian tribalism on all sides as the uber-Right herds us into their goo$€$tep Wild W€$tern 'ru£€$ based order'.... Fortunately the Irish have still an inkling as to the origins of those Pena£ ru£€$.

[@untonsured]

@@damienflinter4585 why get stressed out about it? You're only shortening your own life. The romans are long dead and none of their political matters matter now and none of ours will matter in 200 years either.

[@damienflinter4585]

@@untonsured Not too stressed. I've already had a long full life. Just don't think the Roman 'divide et impera' formula of Mars-worship gives my grandkids an option of even a twenty, never mind 200 year future. Looking at the current idiocies Christmas seems like a long shot. I failed complacency in my finals.

[@untonsured]

@@damienflinter4585 complacency or moaning haha. Just joking. None of them are exactly Marcus Aurelius but Marcus was Marcus and there's not to many like him...why is that? There's also something called the 'hedonic treadmill' which comes from sociology. I don't think my great great grandfather would believe the level of material comfort I have now and by today's standards I'm not rich at all.

[@damienflinter4585]

@@untonsured If you think the measure of man is 'the level of material comfort', Pat, you're not going to cut Marcus Aurelius's mustard. I suggest you reread him. By Roman, even imperial, standards we are, in the current empires, hedonised to decadence. I reckon too many are stoically tolerant, instead of ethically outraged by the desending dark age, that will, if witness survives, make the 1930s seem mild.