Innisfree

**Innisfree** is a fictional historical character created by The Residents, who is referenced (but never seen) within their Mole Trilogy multimedia project.

Within the wider Mole Trilogy mythology, Innisfree was the first Chub explorer to venture out of Chubville, through a vast and inhospitable desert, into "the Pit", the home of the shadowy, hole-dwelling Moles. Innisfree is said to have disappeared several years later, with Chub legend claiming that he was horribly murdered by the very race he had discovered.

The legend of Innisfree is apparently the focal point of a fictional Chub musical, also titled ***Innisfree***; the song "Happy Home" from the 1982 album *The Tunes of Two Cities* is said to be an excerpt from Act II of this musical.

## Fictional history

According to Chub legend, Innisfree was a young explorer who was the first Chub to enter the hitherto unexplored "Pit", bringing back word of a race of "mole" people who survived the harsh desert environment by living underground.

Innisfree is said to have disappeared several years after returning and revealing the existence of the Moles to Chub society; Chub legend suggests that he was murdered (in a manner involving "hideous torture") by the very Moles he had discovered, while other Chubs believe that he lives on, "old beyond belief".

Innisfree's travels were often romanticized by Chubs of later generations, who would make arduous journeys to "the pit edge" to glory in his achievements. When the Moles were forced to flee their homes and arrived in great numbers in Chubville, many Chubs expected the refugees to be "full of new stories about Innisfree".

The legend of Innisfree and his discovery of the Moles inspired a popular musical, also titled *Innisfree* (which was later described as "roughly analogous" to George Gershwin's *Porgy and Bess*; a musical about black slaves by a white American). The musical's second act features the song "Happy Home", which received some airplay on Chub radio.

## See also

* Chubs
* "Happy Home"
* Mohelmot
* The Observer (character)

## External links and references

* *The Tunes of Two Cities* at The Residents Historical
* *The Tunes of Two Cities* at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ima Buddy, *Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated BIG MAMAS*, 1992

**Cast of Characters**
Mohelmot · Chubs (**Innisfree** · The Scientist) · The ObserverDarkness · The Evil DisposerCross (Zinkenites · Kula Bocca · The Big Bubble · Frankie DuVall)
**Part One: *Mark of the Mole* (1981)**
(video game · novel)
**Side A: Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature**
"Voices of the Air" · "The Ultimate Disaster" · "Migration"
**Side B: Hole-Workers vs. Man and Machine**
"Another Land" · "The New Machine" · "Final Confrontation"
**Part Two: *The Tunes of Two Cities* (1982)**
(*The Comix of Two Cities*)
**Side A:** "Serenade For Missy" · "A Maze Of Jigsaws" · "Mousetrap" · "God Of Darkness" · "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)" · "Praise For The Curse"
**Side B:** "The Secret Seed" · "Smokebeams" · "Mourning The Undead" · "Song Of The Wild" · "The Evil Disposer" · "Happy Home (Excerpt From Act II of "**Innisfree**")"
***Intermission: Extraneous Music From The Residents' Mole Show* (1982)**
**Side A:** "Lights Out (Prelude)" · "Shorty's Lament (Intermission)"
**Side B:** "The Moles Are Coming (Intermission)" · "Would We Be Alive? (Intermission)" · "The New Hymn (Recessional)"
**The Mole Show (1982-1983)**(*Mole Dance 82* · *Live At The Roxy* · *La Edad de Oro* · Uncle Sam Mole Show · VHS · *Live In Holland* · DVD bag set)
**Part Three: ???**
"Now It Is Too Late" · "Going Nowhere" · "Tired Old Man" · "Marching To The We" · *Mole Suite*
**Part Four: *The Big Bubble* (1985)**(fictional band · Black Shroud Records)
**Side A:** "Sorry" · "Hop A Little" · "Go Where Ya Wanna Go" · "Gotta Gotta Get" · "Cry For The Fire"
**Side B:** "Die-Stay-Go" · "Vinegar" · "Firefly" · "The Big Bubble" · "Fear for the Future" · "Kula Bocca Says So"
**Part Five: ???**
**Part Six: ???**
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