Sometimes ghosts are summoned through a song, and sometimes they come unbidden in other ways. When Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh received her Eircode a few years ago the digits startled her. They were F94K. It seemed like a sign from the beyond. Mairéad’s late husband, the love of her life, and the man with whom she became a star of traditional music, was Frankie Kennedy. He died in 1994.
Sometimes ghosts are summoned through a song, and sometimes they come unbidden in other ways. When Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh received her Eircode a few years ago the digits startled her. They were F94K. It seemed like a sign from the beyond. Mairéad’s late husband, the love of her life, and the man with whom she became a star of traditional music, was Frankie Kennedy. He died in 1994.
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