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Brideswell Celtic Festival 1996 Incorporating the Paddy Beades music and dance workshops FRIDAY 26TH JULY 1996 2-5pm 5.00-5.30pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 10.00pm SATURDAY 27TH JULY 1996 10am-4pm 4.00pm 9.00pm Music & Dance Workshops Lecture Tour, Carn Ancient Cemetery Musical Tribute to The Late Paddy Beades in Brideswell followed by Official Opening Opening Show with two of the best from Clare & Roscommon P.}. Murrihy & Seamus Shannon Cross Roads Gilf with the Golden Eagle Ct§iif Band Music & Set Dance Workshops Traditional Singing Session, in O'Connells with Singers from all over Ireland, hosted by the South Roscommon Singers Club. 'A Mighty Session' around the bonfire, led by Tom &}o Collins, with a host of visiting Musicians, Singers and Dancers (including English Folk Shanties, Clog Dancing Demo, Irish Solo Dancers and lots more.) SUNDAY 28TH JULY 1996, PATTERN SUNDAY 12.00 noon 1.00pm 4.00pm 4.3 0pm 5.30pm 9.00pm Open Air Pattern Mass Celtic Pageant Traditional Stations Loca l History Lecture Youths Ceilf and Concert with acts from all over South Roscommon Fleet on the Street - Two Bands to take you into the early hours 'Allan Yn Y Fan' (Wales) followed by 'Sounds Traditional' (East Galway) MONDAY 29TH JULY 1996 Farewell Sessions Brideswell, Athlone. Ph : (0902) 88140 See Brochure for further details For the "Record Patrick Short 102 Fieldfare Beaconsfield Quebec H9W 4W6 g, read the rec;nt contribution by Gear6id 0 hAllmhurain to Treoir (Iml 27 Uimh 4) with interest and was a little dismayed when he claimed that: 'the Free State had declared itself a republic (a move which was first made public in th e United States)' . It is a well documented fact that this decision was an nounced in Ottawa, Canada in early September 1948. Source: Eamonn de Va"era by The Earl of Longford & Thomas P. O'Neill published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. November 1970. sbn 7171 04850 CHAPTER 33 PAGE 432: 'The surprise, therefore, was considerable when, early in September, the Sunday Independent announced that the Government intended to repeal the External Relations Act. The Taoiseach John A. Costello, was in Canada and faced a press conference a couple of days later. In answer to a question, he confirmed the newspaper report. There has been considerable dispute about the sequence of events for it is often thought that the decision had not been formally taken before Costello's announcement in Canada .. .' Patrick Short 20 ________________________________________________ _
It was in Cavan, in the back room of a sma ll house, that he first heard the fidd le playing of the legendary Sean Maguire from Belfast. ' He was so sweet and natural I felt like th rowing my own in strum en t into the rocks of Burren afterward s' . Sean Maguire, who has lost hi s voice, visits Linnane's where he knows there w ill always be an audience for his sweet tones and buckets of talent to join in glorious sessions. Gerry Lynch is 62 and was an accord ion player w ith the old band before taking a plane from Shann on, as the lads from Feakl e surely did, in 1959. He had two stints as a tunnel man in New York; he returned to Kilfenora in 1978, went back to the US in 1988, and finally retired in Clare in 1994. John Lynch teaches in Limerick, lives in Ennis and leads his Kilfenora Band of 10 at weekend s. Next week they play in Manchester, the week after in Rasorangis, outside Pari s. 'I love the music, wasn't I reared on it? I play ban jo and w hen I was young and hit a wrong note my father would be roaring until I got it ri ght'. His own son, Patrick, w ho is 16, has also a love of music. 'He's into heavy metal. The other ni ght I was downstairs strumming the keys of a new reel. He was in his bedroom w ith some other lads hammeri ng away on his gu itar. 18 Generations of the Kilfenora: Gerry (left), PJ and John Lynch outside Linnane's 'Anyhow, he came down, listened to what I was playing and w ith his electri c guitar joined in on the ree l. It was lovely and so I promised to all ow him sit in on a traditional sess ion in Kilfenora. He's thrilled'. Another past member of the Kilfenora was doing a bit of reconstru ction work in the kitchen of Linnane's pub; Tommy Peoples, a Donega l fiddler w ho was once described as 'the greatest tradi tionalist ever - he's Elvis and the Beatles rolled into one'. In the 1960s, he played w ith Li am Og o Floinn and Matt Mo ll oy before moving to the Bothy Band. He is married to Marie Linnane, daughter of the late Kitty. There are a number of albums to his cred it, including one on a New York labe l w ith Paul Brady. A neighbour's child is Sharon Shannon from Corofin. She, too, has taken her Castignari button accordi on to Linnane's, a loud w hisper from internationa l stages in San Francisco, Boston and London. John Lynch says that he tries to recapture the distinctive rh ythmic sou nd of the old band, w hich 'sets the toes tapping and everyone wants to get up and dance'. The old musical masters of the area, Mulqueenys, McMahons
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