Written By Seamus Mulligan THE ROSE OF TRALEE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IS HELD ANNUALLY IN COUNTY KERRY AND IS BASED ON THE LOVE SONG, ‘THE ROSE OF TRALEE’ BY WILLIAM MUCHINOCK, A 19TH CENTURY WEALTHY MERCHANT. HIS LOVE FOR THE MAID, MARY O’CONNOR, WAS RESTRICTED BY THE BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES. AFTER EMIGRATING TO INDIA, […]
