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Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux – Benedictine monks
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Video on Benedictine monks. Backpacking in France. I was lucky to be there in right time, just when they had… what’s name for it? But incredible experiences , like in old times. www.barroux.org
An American college student backpacking in France takes a shortcut through a Veteran’s Cemetery. There he encounters the Shades of those buried there. This short film has played at the Portland Art Museum and on Concast in the Portland area. Special thanks to Eric Bogle, Dropkick Murphys and Epitaph records for allowing me to use this song. – Pete Robertson
sounds like vespers….
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It’s suggested that William McBride was Scottish, hence the reference to “Flowres of the Forrest.” Also, Eric Bogle (who wrote the poem/song) is Scottish-Australian.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there were eight soldiers named “William McBride”, and a further six listed as “W. McBride”, who died in France or Belgium during World War I but none matches the soldier in the song.
I filmed this in Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon, where there just happened to be a William McBride interred. I know the details on the gravestone don’t match the song, but I didn’t want to alter a real soldier’s headstone, even in post-production.
the grave stone says world war 2.
and he died in year 2000.
But yes the willi mcbride in the song is a a real soldier and he was burried in Authuille British Cemetery in north france i think.
I never knew that willy mc bride was a real person its a great song, its about irish people who fought in ww1 and they never got recognised by ireland until recently as they were considered to be fighting with an occupational force and considered traitors (not in my opinion)