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The Isle of Innisfree is a song composed by Dick Farrelly (Irish songwriter, policeman and poet), born Richard Farrelly, who wrote both the music and lyrics. Dick got the inspiration for “Isle of Innisfree”, the song for which he is best remembered, while on a bus journey from his native Kells, County Meath to Dublin. The song was published in 1950 by The Peter Maurice Music Publishing Co., now part of the EMI group. Farrelly’s “Isle of Innisfree” is a beautiful haunting melody with lyrics expressing the longing of an Irish emigrant for his native land. When film director John Ford heard the song, he loved it so much that he chose it as the principal theme of his film, “The Quiet Man” - Quote from, Picture The Quiet Man, by Des MacHale, Appletree Press, 2004. The... Read on...