Fields of Athenry Flag Our Fields of Athenry Flag is available in the following size : 5ft by 3ft (150cm x 90cm) These Fields of Athenry Flags are screen printed onto 100% polyester material in clear, bold colours, our Irish Flags have a double stitched hem all around and a reinforced hem on the hanging side with 2 metal eyelets for hanging. “The Fields of Athenry” is an Irish folk ballad set during the Great Irish Famine (1845-1850) about a fictional man from near Athenry in County Galway who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food for his starving family. Caption of the Lyrics of this Song By a lonely prison wallI heard a young girl calling“Michael, they have taken you awayFor you stole Trevelyan’s cornSo the young might see the mornNow a prison ship lies waiting in the bay”
