Aoife O'Donovan Quotes

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

Aoife O'Donovan

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  Aoife O'Donovan
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  • Song
  • Cried