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This excavation brings Dempsey first to a family in a Waterford cotton mill, who emigrated to the United States in the mid-19th century, for another cotton mill in which the whole family – two parents and three children – worked in sweatshop and slavish conditions.
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“I won’t forget,” Dempsey says, sitting in her last home, the camera subtly framing him between two rooms in the hues of the Tricolour.
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“That’s a lot to take in”Follow the trail of dense ledgers and official forms long enough, as the singer If Dempsey makes a great candidate for such discoveries it’s not just because his ancestral lines are so rich with national detail – distinguished by proudly insurgent republicans and freedom fighters on his mother’s side, diasporic struggles on his father’s – but also because, as a singer, Dempsey himself is a kind of folk historian.Admittedly, his heroes do get sung.