“…they didn’t know we were seeds.”

I keep crying listening to this song. In it, Clare Sands - a sixth generation fiddler and bilingual singer from Cork -- features the words of three Palestinian poets - Refaat Alareer, Mohammed el-Kurd and Rafeef Ziadah.

The dancer featured in the video is Mustafa Al-Saidi. His father Osama and brother Yousef were killed in a US-funded airstrike in Gaza last year.

St. Paddy's is coming up. The Irish people’s solidarity with Palestine makes me proud to be Irish (my dad's family moved to this country when he was 3). Free Palestine. 🇵🇸🇮🇪