Dolly & Ireland

Dolly Parton on why she always felt such a connection with Ireland:

“I think it is why the Irish have always loved me and I have always loved them. We speak the same language. They appreciate and know what it is like to live hard and to be brought up poor, and I think that they know when I am singing it, I mean it.

And I believe that they know that I feel that emotion that I have... I call it my Smokey Mountain DNA, but it is from those old songs brought over from Ireland and England.”

Via the video description: While on holiday in Kerry, singer Dolly Parton paid a visit to former Kerry footballer Páidí Ó Sé’s pub, where she performs her song ‘Coat of Many Colours’ accompanied by musicians Steve Cooney and Seamus Begley. Dolly signs off at the end of her performance, Thank you very much and welcome to Dinglewood. This episode of Cursaí was broadcast on 1 October 1990.