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anch treated the audience to some<br />
lively reels, jigs, hornpipes finishing<br />
with that famous Irish slow air, The<br />
Cool in. His selection came from tunes<br />
played by the late founder members, to<br />
name but a few, Sean Ryan, Martin<br />
Turley, Brendan McMahon, Dennis<br />
Lyons, Frank Conway, John Whelan,<br />
Larry McMahon and of course his own<br />
father Paddy Brennan.<br />
The second half of the concert was to<br />
completely upstage the first half with<br />
Reels, played in jig time by some<br />
members of the group, and the<br />
audience singing along to 6 R6 'Se do<br />
Bheath'a Abhaile. The audience got to<br />
know such composition names as 'The<br />
Maid behind the Bar,' 'Tripping up the<br />
Stairs', 'The Sally Gardens' and 'The<br />
Silver Spear', to mention but a few. The<br />
make up of a bodhran was explained<br />
by the concert producer, Robert<br />
Gleeson, and demonstrated by Paul<br />
Higgins. The first chairman of the<br />
branch, the late Brendan McMahon<br />
would have especially enjoyed two<br />
items in the second half, the ballad,<br />
'My poor ould ass' the words given by<br />
him back in the sixties to Eugene Nolan<br />
and the High Level hornpipe, faultlessly<br />
played by Seam us Keller.<br />
Too quickly the night's programme<br />
came to an end, it was a building that<br />
was not easy to leave, somehow it kept<br />
asking us to stay for another while<br />
maybe it too was trying to relive its past<br />
when a night such as tonight's would<br />
have been common place, with the<br />
building bustling with people and<br />
excitement.<br />
Our thanks to James Gandon for<br />
designing such a magnificent building,<br />
to Mr Cholmeley D. Harrison who fell<br />
in love with this building and<br />
beautifully restored it to its former glory<br />
and who recently donated it to the<br />
people of Ireland. Our thanks to Mr<br />
Paddy Friel, OPW and to Ray and<br />
Siobhan Murphy for their assistance<br />
and helpful suggestions.<br />
The river of music song and dance that<br />
has started to flow in Emo Court will<br />
return in the not too distant future.<br />
Pictured at Bru Boru is RTf personality Liam 6 MurchrJ with guests on his Lifelines television programme Labhr;is and Una 6 MurchrJ. Also<br />
included is Archbishop Dermot C1ifford and Paddy Doherty of the Derry Civic Trust<br />
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