Machree

Like Alec Wilder, Broun found this generally delightful: “The light laughter of soprano voices rings now where once sodden male wretches stood and sang Mother Machree.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Like Alec Wilder, Broun found this generally delightful: “The light laughter of soprano voices rings now where once sodden male wretches stood and sang Mother Machree.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

We're like a man who gets terribly sentimental to the tune of Mother Machree, and hardly ever sees his own mother because he's ashamed of her grammar.

Various Aspects of the Ottawa Scene 1950

"Mary, here," he proceeded, "sings it; I would like to hear it before I go; it's the air of _Gra Gal Machree_."

The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Expect to hear treatments of everything from "Mother Machree" to Van, Sinéad, the Undertones, and Thin Lizzy.

The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011

On 5 June 1944, they left Weymouth on board HMS Ben Machree, the LCI Landing Craft, Infantry which would ferry them to the shores of Normandy.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Will he be singing "Mother Machree" as an encore Sunday afternoon?

SFGate: Top News Stories Johnny Miller 2010

Thus, a medley of tunes, mostly Irish, echoed over the calm waters—“I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen,” “Sidewalks of New York,” “The Bowery,” “My Wild Irish Rose,” “Mother Machree.”

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

Thus, a medley of tunes, mostly Irish, echoed over the calm waters—“I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen,” “Sidewalks of New York,” “The Bowery,” “My Wild Irish Rose,” “Mother Machree.”

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

"In 1960 I sold the hard-shell Baptists in Texas on the line that John F. Kennedy was a sweet, simple-hearted Irish spalpeen who sang "Mother Machree" and would take no orders from the Pope.

Space Michener, James 1982