| From Pit Boy to the King of Song
Born in Leigh, Lancashire of humble Irish parents, Tom Burke rose to
fame as one Ireland?s greatest tenors as John D. Vose recalls.
From the steerage deck of the Liverpool-bound steamer, James Vincent
Burke watched the Wicklow coastline receding into the distance.
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