Forum: Music
06-28-2018, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,280
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: 499
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
05-01-2018, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 922
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: 2,951
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-21-2017, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,951
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
10-08-2017, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,223
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: 773
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: 700
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: 5,296
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Forum: In Memoriam
07-27-2017, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,390
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: 1,142
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Forum: Music
04-16-2017, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,656
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: 1,839
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: 4,213
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Forum: Beer Tent
03-10-2017, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,213
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
02-03-2017, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,524
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: 1,557
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Forum: Music
01-27-2017, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,017
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-24-2017, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,800
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
12-09-2016, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,249
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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Forum: Beer Tent
10-16-2016, 06:03 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 18,273
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
09-18-2016, 09:58 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,189
In the eye of the beholder
For the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Miss Lewis brought a radio to school and we listened to it at our desks. The horse troops clopped by and battalions of drums, then a band of...
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Forum: Piping and Drumming Jokes
09-15-2016, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 808
Obviously a critic?
She Pushed Bagpipes in Her Face
Bagpipes and Highland dress were produced in Dartford, Kent, Magistrates’ Court to-day when Mrs Gladys Whitall, Heavytree Road, Plumstead, London, alleged that she...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
09-07-2016, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,404
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
09-07-2016, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,404
Re: Irish War-pipes
It's very interesting to read Francis O'Neill's views (around the turn of the century) on the Irish Revivalists taking up the Highland pipes. He was a lover of the Uilleann pipes, which he regarded...
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