Raftery the Poet | Raifteirí an File

Raftery the Poet | Raifteirí an File

Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Walking in the West of Ireland

Raftery the Poet, of 19th Century Mayo, was blind from childhood and spent his life playing tunes on the fiddle, creating and singing songs as he wandered the West of Ireland. Born in Killeden, near Kiltimagh in east Co. Mayo, around 1779, Raftery would lead a nomadic...