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TREOIR<br />
Ceol sa Chistin<br />
Donegal. To keep warm in the school<br />
playground during cold periods the<br />
children danced. She recalls in<br />
particular The Haymakers Jig, which<br />
she could st<strong>ill</strong> dance in her eighties.<br />
The heart of traditional Irish dance is<br />
to involve everyone from the 'stars'<br />
to absolute beginners. The tradition<br />
(what is being handed on) was/is for<br />
everybody to dance with each other<br />
- the 'experts' with the 'beginners'<br />
thus involving all ages. Something very<br />
important was being handed on - a<br />
way of living, relating and socialising -<br />
a unique culture in the words of the<br />
novelist Maeve Binchy.<br />
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