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'I love the song that I learned as a child about County Antrim'
People of Antrim love their county and have written songs in its praise. The story goes that a man from Glendun was thinking of emigrating and he wrote a song in which he imagined what it would be like to be away. He made himself so sad that he…
'… sitting by the fire in a dimly lit house up the street, listening to the two ancient little Dooey sisters tell all sorts of scary tales of ghosts and mysterious happenings'
We had a song about Cloughmillss Fair. Delia Murphy sang it. I must confess it was not one of her better known renditions but we thought it was great to have her singing about Ballylig and the fair on the 9 June. It wasn't much of a fair, but we got…
Tags: fair, journal, Song, storytelling
'I still get a thrill as I come over the hill on the way to Ballycastle, look down to Fairhead and over to Rathlin'
I don't think, as a child, I would have been too surprised to 'meet a lochrey man' such as the one mentioned in Seosamh 0 Cathmhoill's song which was a favorite My father and mother were Irish And I am Irish too. I bought a wee fidil for…
'I belonged to other all-Ireland networks, and I was affected by them'
Oft in the stilly night ere slumbers chain has bound me Fond memories bring the light of other days around me Oft in the Stilly Night is an appropriate song to start with, because in thinking about my childhood I have become conscious of many fond…