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Irish songwriter This article is about the songwriter. For the Gaelic footballer and father of professional golfer Paul, see Mick McGinley.
Mick Mc Ginley and wife Brigid Mc Devitt late 1920's

Michael McGinley (born 1852 in Alt an Iarann, Gleann tSúilí, Donegal, Ireland) was an Irish songwriter famous for the songs "The Hills of Glenswilly" and "An Emigrant's Farewell", written as he travelled on the ship The Invercardill to New Zealand in 1878.

Having returned to Ireland, he married Bridget McDevitt in 1901. One of their children was Nora, a republican socialist and activist. They first farmed a small holding at Breenagh, but later leased a pub in Strabane, County Tyrone, and then moved to Ballybofey, County Donegal. He wrote the ballad The Woods of Drumboe (aka The Drumboe Martyrs) to memorialise the four anti-treaty republicans who were executed in Drumboe on 14 March 1923.

He is the older brother of Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, an Irish language writer.

References

  1. "TransIP - Reserved domain".
  2. O'Riordan, Turlough (2018). "Harkin, Nora". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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