Irish Fridays

[Globaltruth]

You always enjoying making your Marx, Global.

I know...very poor!

There’s something about Global Marxism in there JC, luckily it didn’t escape.... :-)

[johncorrigan]

There’s something about Global Marxism in there JC, luckily it didn’t escape.... :-)

Keeping shtum, Global.

[johncorrigan]

Brona McVittie's new record 'We are the Wildlife' got a favourable review in the paper today and I found this track from it. Enjoyable, I thought, for an Irish Friday in the early days of January.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WRId9qfrwg

[Lat-Literal]

Brona McVittie's new record 'We are the Wildlife' got a favourable review in the paper today and I found this track from it. Enjoyable, I thought, for an Irish Friday in the early days of January.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WRId9qfrwg

New to me.

I can't decide.

She might just disappear from my focus or I might end up being very keen.

I think I prefer this one:

Brona McVittie - Under The Pines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rotk-2f8D5E

But my main reason for this late Irish Friday is Dolores O'Riordan who has just died aged 46. I was never a huge fan of the Cranberries although I must have caught parts of their live set on several occasions at Fleadh - and possibly Glastonbury - in the 1990s. Hadn't realised how young she was then. And this is the track that I like very much. Actually, it's a classic:

The Cranberries - Linger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42703888

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42702826

RIP Dolores O'Riordan -

[johncorrigan]

So as not to break the habit of a weektime, here's the only Irish 78 I can find on 'The Shellac'.
James Morrison – The Lark in the Morning/The Wandering Minstrel from before they started recording Blind Willie Johnson in Dallas.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Morrison/

Top of the Mornin' Irish Friday to one and all!!

[Globaltruth]

Whisht JC, that old YooToob never lets you down...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ZJVV1CGz4

(I spared you the 45min presentation on the life and times of James Morrison but just in case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEF9uIgMr4c

and the Wheels of the World album (Vol. 2) is on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/6111XqhBpZCqo329Z4tScn?si=DIy0ksHXSQKL1T9_hEJvtA

and, for future use and interest, have a look at

https://www.itma.ie/latest/news/digital-materials

[johncorrigan]

Happy Irish Friday and to celebrate the induction of Uilleann Pipes into the Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall of Fame here's the great Liam O'Flynn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1Og2Ak8P0

[Globaltruth]

As I said some where else yesterday was imbolc, which means ‘in the belly’ I’m told (where’s Padraig?)

Perhaps a bit of Davy Spillane, a fine Uillean pipe player..playing a song called Equinox which is half right for imbolc!

https://youtu.be/Cw73IBYrPuo

[Padraig]

As I said some where else yesterday was imbolc, which means ‘in the belly’ I’m told (where’s Padraig?)

Perhaps a bit of Davy Spillane, a fine Uillean pipe player..playing a song called Equinox which is half right for imbolc!
https://youtu.be/Cw73IBYrPuo

Global, all I know is that St. Brigid is celebrated on February 1, though her feast coincides with a pagan festival of the same time of year.
Putting together the 2s, I gather that the Spring Equinox and Imbolc are one and the same, but, we in our wisdom, look to St. Brigid's Cross to keep us Christian.

http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/01/imbolc-candlemas-and-bridgets-day-2018-what-is-the-festival-all-about-7209687/

[vinteuil]

As I said some where else yesterday was imbolc, which means ‘in the belly’ I’m told (where’s Padraig?)

... alternative etymology from today's Times - "Candlemas probably originated from Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival that was celebrated yesterday. This was the time when ewes came into milk, which might be the origins of the name Imbolc, from oimelc, meaning “ewe’s milk”. It was when farmers needed to predict whether winter was over or spring about to arrive."

wiki is sniffy about that 'folk etymology' -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc

[Globaltruth]

... alternative etymology from today's Times - "Candlemas probably originated from Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival that was celebrated yesterday. This was the time when ewes came into milk, which might be the origins of the name Imbolc, from oimelc, meaning “ewe’s milk”. It was when farmers needed to predict whether winter was over or spring about to arrive."

wiki is sniffy about that 'folk etymology' -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc

Far be it from me to argue with the august etymologists of The Times, even though they take Murdoch's coin which must be regarded as slightly suspect [Yes, I am being slightly sniffy about The Times ]...But (you sensed a but), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology gives us the Old Irish word bolg (meaning 'bag') as being cognate with belly, [indeed, an older spelling of imbolc is imbolg]. With respect to the preposition in-, CDoE states that it is found in the form im- before words beginning with b, m and p. The same cognate in- is found in Old English and Old Irish.
Therefore the translation of imbolc[imbolg] as in the belly is a reasonable one.
I struggle to see how the completely different word 'oimelc' which, via Chambers does lead to ewe's milk is connected. On a point of nature, ewes come into milk after they are pregnant - not whilst in the belly.

Now, how do I get back to music from here? hmmm...

[Padraig]

bolg means 'belly'.
'In belly' is i bolg
because i causes ellipsis, we get i mbolg - b is eclipsed by m
spoken it will sound 'imolg'

Still working on how to get back to music.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Still working on how to get back to music.

Stockhausen, of course!

[Padraig]

Stockhausen, of course!

By a process of association - if you see what I mean - I wonder how this Iarla OLionaird performance sits with fans of traditional Sean Nos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHD6CoG0no

[johncorrigan]

By a process of association - if you see what I mean - I wonder how this Iarla OLionaird performance sits with fans of traditional Sean Nos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHD6CoG0no

Thank you very much for that, Padraig. Meant I took a break from the Uilleann pipes though I have been listening to this piece of sheer delight from the Brendan Voyage by Liam O'Flynn and Arty McGlynn a great number of times this last day or two. Takes me back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8V-N91ve0