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The film could as easily be called ‘Ireland’s First Wedding Video’! I had seen newspaper accounts of the wedding, and had assumed that... -
Re: Shakespeare pipe lesson
If I remember correctly, Flood picked up what was ultimately a casual suggestion made in the 18th century by...Leave a comment:
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Re: Did "Scotland the Brave" originate with "O'Donnell Abu"?
The tune to which ‘O’Donnell Aboo’ is...Leave a comment:
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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... -
Re: Parting Glass, 2nd part
Tá dhá insint ar 'chuile scéal, is dhá leagan déag ar amhrán.
'There are two ways of...Leave a comment:
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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,...Leave a comment:
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Re: Sheet music for.....
Seacht Suailcí na Maighdine Muire was recorded by Nóirín Ní Riain with the monks of Glenstal Abbey (I think),...Leave a comment:
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Re: Flora MacDonald's Fancy
'Bannocks o' Barley Meal'? It's the tune Irish musicians call the "Kinnegad Slashers...Leave a comment:
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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... -
Re: Donald MacDonald pipes owned by Colonel Jack Churchill
Yes, that's the I saw. For some reason, I couldn't hear the...Leave a comment:
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Re: Donald MacDonald pipes owned by Colonel Jack Churchill
On the Pathe website, there's report on a Commando raid on some...Leave a comment:
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Re: An outsized rodent
Well, an Irish version I heard featured a 'wee mon frae Fermanagh' whose piper-daughter marries...Leave a comment:
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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...Leave a comment:
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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... -
Re: Celtic ancestry.
The Irish Free State ceased to exist in 1949 when a republic was declared....Leave a comment:
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