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Crusheen
Last night Gail and I drove out to Crusheen in Clare to visit our friends Tim and Claire. All in all a totally lovely time! Woo hoo!
Odds and Ends
I haven’t posted since Wednesday. During that time we did a bunch of things, including a couple of sessions at Hughes (with Pearl O’Shaugnessy), an impromptu dinner with Tony and Jane, a party at Tony and Jane’s, a delicious Irish breakfast at a place called Faile, a session at the Duke, a Fordham law “end [...]
Tubbercurry / The Palace
Every summer after the Willie Clancy Week, the town of Tubbercurry hosts the South Sligo Summer School. (There is a week-long music festival somewhere in Ireland pretty much every week all summer.) I went yesterday with engineer/archivist/Irish music authority/all around great guy Harry Bradshaw. A couple of weeks ago I sent Harry an email to [...]
Sessions on Sunday, Monday Afternoon
Last night we went out for tunes. We started in the afternoon at O’Donoghue’s, a real famous place on Baggot St, where we had kind of a bad time (Gail in particular). It was impossible to hear, and the musicians made music that was very much geared to a particular kind of audience (one that [...]
Miltown Malbay
Thursday, we went to the King’s Inns and had dinner with barristers and judges and what not. It was fun, very fancy and the food was great (if perhaps a little inoffensive). The high point for me was at the end where they brought out a stuffed ram’s head and offered snuff from it’s brain [...]
Out at the Palace
Early yesterday, Gail and her cohort toured the Four Courts (I did not go). She forgot the camera, but it didn’t matter because they didn’t allow photography anyway. Later on in the afternoon, we on a tour of the Parliament of Ireland. It was fun. Pictures weren’t allowed inside, but here are a couple I [...]
Chewsday
Big day today! I rented a car so that we can drive down to the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, then I spoke with Tristan about where the sessions Gail and I might go to are. Then, I went out and met up with Jane. We got stuck in some rain on our [...]
Sunday Night, Monday Morning.
We started yesterday with some heavy relaxing, an activity that began with breakfast, continued with intense TV watching and included tune playing. We started with the movie The Field (which I’d never seen, but was the basis for my favorite episode of Killinaskully [compare that scene with this clip @ 3'57"]), moved on to some [...]
First Day in Dublin
We left Belfast yesterday around 11:00 and got to bright and sunny Dublin around 1:30, maybe 2:00pm? The bus dropped us at Trinity (where I learned it is nigh impossible to find a bathroom by following the signs) and met up with Jane, who graciously took us over to our apartment where we met Mary [...]