The Irishman's Song is played against seven charged years of Irish and American history, moving through the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, the 1919-21 brutal Anglo-Irish War of Independence, into 1922 and the Irish Civil War.In 1916, Kate Flanagan, whose father and husband are killed in rebel movements, is desperate to leave Ireland. Sean, her teenage son, is reluctant to go but feels it is his responsibility to stay with the family. Settled in a small...