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Daughters of Destiny – Frank McNally on a forgotten immigrant community, the Irish Palatines


 
Leaving Cert graduates of a certain age will remember The Planter’s Daughter, Austin Clarke’s poem about a woman whose appearance caused the men who had seen her to drink deep and be silent. Less well known, except to some singers and musicians, is The Palatine’s Daughter, although the two had a lot in common.
The latter was also of striking winsomeness, and if not from the big house, also came with land and money. Crucially, unlike the Planter’s Daughter, she was not unattainable, at least to the song narrator who meets her one day while roving “through the groves of Ballyseedy”. By the final verse, he has won both her and the dowry. This may be why the song is much jauntier than the poem, being set to that lively traditional dance-beat of the Czech Republic and Kerry, the polka. ....

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