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FARMER MICHEAL HAYES

Planxty sang "The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes" on their 1979 album "After the Break". They commented in their original album’s notes: The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes was learned from several sources: Christy heard versions of it sung by John Lyons, Tom Lenihan, and an unknown singer on Donnacha O Dulaing’s radio programme “Highways and Byways”. He received written versions from Mike Flynn and Seamus Mac Mathuna and there’s another in Zimmerman’s Songs of Irish Rebellion. The air is that of a song that Andy Irvine used to sing in early Planxty days. The song is set in the period 1850-70, which was a time of great unrest among Irish tenant farmers. Laws passed enabling landlords to speedily evict any tenants who fell behind with rents. Dispossession was often violent, leading to reprisals in the form of terrorist attacks on landlords and agents. In places, crime took on the aspect of guerrilla warfare. Against this background, the song of Michael Hayes was made. After being evicted from his farm, the enraged Hayes murdered the landlord’s agent and went on the run. Despite close pursuit, involving telegraph messages and mounting offers of reward, he managed to get to America, thumbing his nose to all his enemies.