"Backs of envelopes overnight" - I think we all deserve a good solid notebook by the side of the bed. It is by way of a human right at my age...
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Yes, quite.Originally posted by greenilex View Post
Cross-reference to Tony Crowley - "Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004" (if I am not mistaken).Originally posted by Padraig View Post
He speaks highly of the GFA and considers its language clauses helpful to the future of the North and South.
I would discuss such matters with my dentist of 25 years, Patrick from Creegh, and Bridget, 83 along the road but they wouldn't have the slightest clue what I was on about. She was a UK Civil Servant so there's no excuse. Sadly, if I am to assume that all of my "recent" ancestors were English, there is nothing at all about those in the 1530s on the internet other than the "whipping of vagabonds until they were bloody". Luckily, in appearance there is no suggestion whatsoever that all the ones before the 1800s were English or British, hence I must get the genealogy DNA kit bought soon so as to have a bit of Eastern European or even Middle Eastern irritation flowing. Given the world as it is now, I'm missing out.
Four Street Musicians just off Irish Town in Gibraltar - Lithuanian Folk Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnIVy5KsK48
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Alicante, where my 74 year old cousin will continue to live until all out war - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdMInT4G-M
I've seen enough of what is taking place - I now favour a hard Brexit.
It's similar to 2010; when the Government lost my tolerance, I predicted it would turn very ugly among the masses and it will.
Sadly, we ain't seen nothing yet. The playing field has utterly changed.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 03-04-17, 08:17.Comment
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Was talking about Bill Fay today with a colleague and found this beautiful video of a journey through Dublin in the 60s accompanying the beautiful 'Cosmic Concerto (Life is People)'. Thought it made an ideal addition to Irish Friday.
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Someone gave those shiny buses plenty of love...Comment
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We're ahead of ourselves.
Michael Coleman, the famous Sligo fiddler, recorded in 1927. Ninety years ago. Influential? What do you think?Comment
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A real toe-tapper there, Global...here's one back. Happy Irish Friday...Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostWe're ahead of ourselves.
Michael Coleman, the famous Sligo fiddler, recorded in 1927. Ninety years ago. Influential? What do you think?
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Not sure whether I like that best - the instrumental is similar to the music on the Benny Hill Show - or the Mexican "Hang On (S)loopy".Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
I didn't "get" the Divine Comedy the first time around but now they appeal to me. Must be age or something. I want to hear this again:
Divine Comedy - Songs Of Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPi58K6wZs
I have just spotted this one. I know that video and am very keen on it - and I also have the full CD.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
It is one of comparatively few CDs in my collection from this decade that are not in the R3 categories.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 28-04-17, 22:03.Comment
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I love them both...by the way, Lat, did you catch Los Rockin' devils' 'Gloria'?Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostNot sure whether I like that best - the instrumental is similar to the music on the Benny Hill Show - or the Mexican "Hang On (S)loopy".
ooops! Mixing threads...blame the beer!Comment
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Groovy man.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI love them both...by the way, Lat, did you catch the Mexican 'Gloria'?
ooops! Mixing threads...blame the beer!
If other people are allowed those sorts of things, presumably I am allowed these sorts of things.
So melodically strong this album........and very underrated.
It's the slacker but knowing and driven with experience in a big production.
It's youth when it is just beyond romantic nihilism and tentatively on uplift:
Ash: Free All Angels (2001) -
Someday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdkrTg8dKGgLast edited by Lat-Literal; 12-05-17, 07:57.Comment
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This may be more in keeping than my previous post.
Ireland with a distinct Eastern European influence:
Andy Irvine - Băneasă's Green Glade:
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Last night I was sure I could see the complete moon out there...but then I remembered it had its dark side. This lot claim to have seen it all.
Happy I.F.Comment
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostLast night I was sure I could see the complete moon out there...but then I remembered it had its dark side. This lot claim to have seen it all.
Happy I.F.
Northern Lights, a duo who while not Irish introduced me to Turlough O'Carolan.
The first and third tracks are on the "Harp and Hammer Dulcimer" album which I bought from their plastic bag in a church courtyard in Amsterdam.
Carolan's Ramble to Cashel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFUrT0ildug
Scarborough Fair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ivmxua_BhY
The Fagernes Mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mz3TF0puy8
The comment from someone called Paul Dewberry below the second is interesting - he must have bought a CD too - I wonder how many they sold.
Footnotes:
It was '91 - The VVV opposite the station dug out the cheapest hotel. It looked like a multi-storey car park and may have been onein part. The room was a shoebox. The corridor was full of men visiting ladies of the night. The man selling white beer in a local bar said that there was on average one drug related death per week there. We went to Haarlem. I discussed Ruud Brink and Trio Pim Jacobs with the elderly couple in the jazz shop there. I had never heard of them before. They had known them personally. In the evening, the fans of Haarlem FC set a significant number of seats immediately beside me alight before beginning their own game of football on the track beside the pitch. That proved more interesting than the actual match as we moved along a bit and the flames rose higher. Alas the team is no more. I think we bumped into Harris Moore and Steve Coulter after a morning in Anne Franks's house and before being taken by friendly proper football fans in a car to Ajax. They probably especially appealed because of the earlier harrowing history tour. There was no visit to so-called coffee shops and only the most cursory glance at the red light district. I didn't get where I am today by being conventionally unconventional.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 13-05-17, 00:10.Comment
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