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Jump to potato fields Jump to search 1979 song written by Pete St. The Fields of Athenry” is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. The Fields of Athenry” was written in 1979 by Pete St.

John, who stated he heard a story about a young man from the Athenry area who had been caught stealing corn to feed his family during the Irish famine years, and was deported to Australia. In 1979, the song was recorded by Danny Doyle, reaching the top ten in the Irish Singles Chart. Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior English civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle. The song was regularly heard from on the terraces in the late 1980s from supporters of the Galway county hurling team. Celtic Football Club in Glasgow has a large following in Ireland and among people in Scotland of Irish descent. During the Great Famine in Ireland during the 1840s, 100,000 Irish famine victims emigrated to Glasgow.