Leaving Ireland - Iain Morrison

Around Dawn on Sunday 21st February 2010, I felt an overwhelming urge to get out into the Sussex Countryside to create a video around a piece of music that had endeared itself to me. It is titled "Leaving Ireland", written by John "Eona" Morrison & played beautifully by Iain Morrison, who I saw perform live at The Chequer Mead Theatre in East Grinstead, back on Saturday 30th January 2010. I bought Iain's fine album "Trust the Sea to Guide Me" which he kindly signed for me & added the words, "La Vita e Bella". "Leaving Ireland" is track 10 on that album & its emotive plaintiveness has me hooked & captures the feeling that the thousands of poor folk who were forced to leave "The Emerald Isle" over the years. For this video I drove into the deepest recesses of "The Ashdown Forest", down a badly rutted track to find a scene that reminded me of my many visits to Ireland, when I left my comfortable hotels & walked out away down the beaten track.