Forum: Teacher's Lounge
02-17-2020, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,247
Re: Shakespeare pipe lesson
If I remember correctly, Flood picked up what was ultimately a casual suggestion made in the 18th century by General Charles Vallancey, who was a notorious speculator in antiquarian and linguistic...
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Forum: Music
01-14-2020, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 826
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
12-27-2019, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 461
Gibraltar, 1727–8: ‘Pride goeth before ... a fall.'
‘November 30. – To-day being St. Andrew, a Scottish gentleman, bearing the dignity of a sergeant, dressed in a Highland manner, viz., his plaid, blue bonnet, broadsword, dirk, target, target and...
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Forum: Music
08-11-2019, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,078
Re: Parting Glass, 2nd part
Tá dhá insint ar 'chuile scéal, is dhá leagan déag ar amhrán.
'There are two ways of telling every story, and twelve ways of singing a song.'
I've never bothered checking but I don't think 'The...
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Forum: Music
07-31-2019, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,430
Re: Rakes of Mallow pipe tune
In this case, the 'Rakes of Mallow' is the original title. The tune was published under that title in 1733, and the words in the 1740s. It is one of a number of tunes linked to the spa at Mallow,...
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Forum: Music
06-28-2018, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,976
Re: Sheet music for.....
Seacht Suailcí na Maighdine Muire was recorded by Nóirín Ní Riain with the monks of Glenstal Abbey (I think), and the recording is available online. And if you drop a query to the Irish Traditional...
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Forum: Music
05-17-2018, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 956
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
05-01-2018, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,356
Pied Pipers?
Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have quipped that if he could have trusted Marshal MacDonald, Duke of Taranto – son of a Jacobite from South Uist – within sound of the Highland bagpipes, he would have...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-21-2017, 10:23 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,219
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-21-2017, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,219
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
10-08-2017, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,756
Re: An outsized rodent
Well, an Irish version I heard featured a 'wee mon frae Fermanagh' whose piper-daughter marries a Texan. Of course, 'everything is bigger in Texas', and when the 'wee mon' flies out for the wedding,...
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
09-21-2017, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,124
Re: A RE-Tread, But For Our New(er) Pipers :)
A version of this joke doing the rounds in Dublin many years ago concerned a notoriously tight-fisted uilleann piper, a brilliant player by the way. It was said that when he drove his mother down...
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
08-19-2017, 11:42 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 909
Nice Work, Rothiemurchus, 1803.
‘My father and mother never wanted for company, and the house was as full of servants as an Indian or an Irish one, strange, ignorant creatures, running about in each other’s way, wondering at the...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
08-13-2017, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 64
Views: 7,217
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Forum: In Memoriam
07-27-2017, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,728
Re: PM Alex Peters (Royal Irish Fusiliers) RIP
I remember reading an article by David Murray in the Piping Times in which he wrote that at the formation of the Royal Irish Rangers in 1968, there was a dispute about whether the new regiment should...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
06-09-2017, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,353
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Forum: Music
04-16-2017, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,427
Re: In search of...
Off the top of my head, I seem to remember reading that 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again' was the original, and that the song had some connection with Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, the well-known...
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
04-06-2017, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,995
Cultural Appropriation?
The Sultan of Morocco has procured a glorified specimen of the Scottish bagpipe from Edinburgh, and with it a complete Highland outfit.
The Arabs, we are informed, view the dress with amazement,...
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Forum: Beer Tent
03-11-2017, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,930
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Forum: Beer Tent
03-10-2017, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,930
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
02-03-2017, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,779
A Penny to Play, Tuppence to Stop, New York
That is all an admittedly lengthy preface to a certain encounter I observed yesterday early evening in Washington Square Park. As I crossed from West to East, I heard that telltale wail coming from a...
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Forum: Music
01-30-2017, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,871
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Forum: Music
01-27-2017, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,188
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-24-2017, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,305
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
12-09-2016, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,426
The Unjust Incarceration?
Shattering the Silence
Some time ago I met a clergyman who had been a chaplain at a famous prison, and he began talking about the prisoners he had met and their various offences.
There was one,...
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