Finian's Rainbow Finian's Rainbow Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane, produced by Lee Sabinson. The original 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances, while a film version was released in 1968 and several revivals have followed. Finian moves to the southern United States (the fictional state of Missitucky is a combination of Mississippi and Kentucky) from Ireland with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief that it will grow. Og, a leprechaun, follows them, desperate to
Irish folklore lived. Irish folklore consists of many classics that are repeated to this day. Popular Irish folkltales include the Otherworld ("An Saol Eile)", which revolves around the idea of supernatural manifestations and beings. These beings appear in many of the folkloristic genres such as ballads, popular song, legends, memorates, belief statements and folkloric material. Some famous examples from this include the Irish fairylore and restless souls and spirits around Halloween such as the Banshee. The Banshee is one of the most popular classics to this day, known by many different names (for example, "Badh" commonly used in the south of Ireland).