Irish Fridays

[Padraig]

Got access to my old vinyl records this week, for the first time in ages, and among all the delights I found 'Chieftains 4' and 'Drowsey Maggie'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrFjDIxre0

Happy Irish Friday to one and all.

That's an old but goodie John.

Here's another -shades of theMcPeakes from Belfast - but updated and coupled with a reel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POUvvQipl6g

[johncorrigan]

While we're with Iarla, here he is with Steve Cooney on Mo Ghile Mear in the National Gallery in Dublin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewy_gMVKg8M

Happy Irish Friday.

[Padraig]

While we're with Iarla, here he is with Steve Cooney on Mo Ghile Mear in the National Gallery in Dublin.

A proper lament, John, rather than a march. I'm learning that it could be a lament for Bonnie Prince Charlie, or for Sean O'Riada, in a song composed quite recently with words from old poems. The Scottish Irish connection is there. Interesting too that Michael D Higgins happens to be in the middle of a spat regarding the centenary of Partition in Ireland - a subject itself worthy of lamentation for some.

[johncorrigan]

Happy Irish Friday! Not sure if this story is true, or if he's telling porkies...Daoiri Farrell performs"Clasped to the Pig".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr0vQqhcf5s

[johncorrigan]

Nearly Friday - Lankum's Ian Lynch was on Beeb Scotty's 'Travelling Folk' this evening promoting that record I mentioned recently, 'Fire Draw Near'. From the record here's Tom Lenihan performing 'Paddy's Panacea' aka 'Stick to the Cratur (Poteen)'. Seems he was TT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMRMDogu2c

[Padraig]

here's Tom Lenihan performing 'Paddy's Panacea' aka 'Stick to the Cratur (Poteen)'. Seems he was TT.

. . . but, I don't see his Pioneer Pin, John. Of course, that was never a guaranteetee of sobriety.

Here's one reminiscent of a song you posted recently; and also brings to mind 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye' : Mrs McGrath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pIOE5Qzto

[Globaltruth]

Arranmore - hope you like the music; if not then you at least have a view to feast the eyes on...

Aoife Ni Gloinn plays Féile Róise Rua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQGZhAQCZpU

and, as an extra, with it being a Friday

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin sings The Deepest Breath. A magnificent voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPHKJaCb38

[johncorrigan]

Here's a clip of Paddy Moloney from thirty years ago for an Irish Friday tribute to the great man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lEq6yYl17s

Is that Iarla interviewing him back then?

[Padraig]

Here's a clip of Paddy Moloney from thirty years ago for an Irish Friday tribute to the great man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lEq6yYl17s

Is that Iarla interviewing him back then?

Yes that's Iarla indeed! Hasn't changed a bit! And that was a great interview (short) and a beautiful Blackbird (too short).

I'll be back with my Friday bit later - with respect to Paddy Moloney.

[Padraig]

Yes that's Iarla indeed! Hasn't changed a bit! And that was a great interview (short) and a beautiful Blackbird (too short).

I'll be back with my Friday bit later - with respect to Paddy Moloney.

Later.

Two pieces - a song and a dance. The dance is a hornpipe to the tune of The Blackbird, which you played earlier. Traditional performance, not your sean-nos but the arms-by-the-sides-style. Great footwork! Tune on the flute.

The song, Irish, collected by Herbert Hughes, not your common or garden. The Chieftains do it with the Corrs, but, with respect, I've picked Sean O'Se who uses a 'minimalist' accompaniment to good effect. Another song I've known forever, and never got it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMBQPr8Y9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLvBknn0co

[Globaltruth]

Thanks Padraig - Céline Tubridy is so elegant, so light on her feet; strong yet dainty.
I enjoyed every aspect of that video very much.

Sad news about Paddy Moloney.

[Padraig]

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Thanks Padraig - Céline Tubridy is so elegant, so light on her feet; strong yet dainty.
I enjoyed every aspect of that video very much.

Sad news about Paddy Moloney.

I'm glad you enjoyed the dancing of Celine Tubridy, Global. Did you know that the flute was played by her husband, Michael Tubridy, one of the original Chieftains? He is still involved in teaching the traditional dances. However, on reading up on the Tubridys I find that my earlier statement about sean nos dancing is not correct. Michael and Celine's steps ARE the old style; yet she doesn't dance in the more relaxed way which I associate with the young sean nos dancers now performing. I think maybe it is the footwork that distinguishes the sean nos(old style).

[Padraig]

One of the great themes of song - unrequited love - which crosses genres. Here it's an Irish song, Casadh an tSugain, the Twisting of the Rope. Iarla OLionaird sang this in the film of Colm Tiobin's novel Brooklyn, but the late Micheal ODohmnaill, another pioneer of the folksong revival in my lifetime, argues his hopeless case.

Ma bhionn tu liom, bi liom
os comhair an tsaoir

If you'll be mine, be mine
In front of everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9-3mW6zw8

[johncorrigan]

I dug out a couple of my old Transatlantic Sessions' records this last couple of days and, among other delights, I found this version of 'Streets of Derry' by Cara Dillon and Paul Brady with Seth Lakeman on piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrxD9mxd6ug

[Padraig]

Gay McIntyre, 1926 - 2021, died this week. Here he is(the very last shot in the video) playing Danny Boy. He was Jazz King of Derry. Sorry if you have been watching this space - technical impossibilities. I live in hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrb9aXJ9shY

hooray