The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn • The Old Main Drag • Wild Cats Of Kilkenny • I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day • A Pair Of Brown Eyes • Sally MacLennane • Dirty Old Town • Jesse James • Navigator • Billy's Bones • The Gentleman Soldier • And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
For it's once I was courted by a rakish a young man
Well it's once I was a-courted by a night, noon, and day
Ah, but now my love has left me and he's gone far away
Oh, me love he's a bandsman and his fingers long and small
He plays on the pipes sweetest music of all
With his red rosy cheeks, love, and his dark rolling eye
While there's breath in my body, I will love my fine boy
And there's something that tells me that me love won't be long,
And it more often tells me that my love won't live long
So then let them all be talking, let them say what they will
While there's breath in my body, I will love my love still.
Ah, for love it is a killing; did you ever feel the pain?
But I've a bunch of green ribbons my love to adorn
And if ever he comes back to me I will I will crown my love's joy
And I'll kiss those fond lips of me darling fine boy.
art: Gordon Robinson, "She plucked with her own soft hands the ugly stinging-nettles". From "The Wild Swans" in Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales, (1917). cr: elephantadvice
lyrics: "I Am A Poor Girl", trad. Irish & Scottish folk, as sung by Peta Webb. cr: mainlynorfolk
#OTD in 1944 – Birth of entertainer and folk musician, Jim McCann.
As a young man, McCann attended University College Dublin as a student of medicine, but became interested in folk music during a summer holiday in Birmingham in 1964. He began to perform in folk clubs in the area, and, upon his return to Dublin, he joined a group called the Ludlow Trio in 1965. In the following year, the Ludlow Trio had a hit with their recording of Dominic Behan’s “The Sea…
Listening to Irish folk music is always a vibe, because one of the songs can be ten minutes of pure vocalization and fae-sounding music, and then some song are about completely random things sung by people with VERY Irish accents.
If I Should Fall from Grace with God • Turkish Song of the Damned • Bottle of Smoke • Fairytale of New York • Metropolis • Thousands Are Sailing • Fiesta • Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road to Dublin / Galway Races • Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six • Lullaby of London • Sit Down by the Fire • The Broad Majestic Shannon • Worms
A collection of photos from the St Patrick's Day parade in Bristol on Sunday 17th of March. For a celebration of traditional Irish culture, it was quite modern and flamboyant, and not without its references to more progressive political agendas (though I've heard of worse), it was wonderful to see how many people come together to enjoy and appreciate a culture that, inasmuch as it has spread across the globe, remains of distinct localised origin.
This is why I am a photographer, to explore in visuals culture in all its various forms, the good, the bad, and the ugly, exploring what makes communities tick, what brings people together, and what pulls them apart. It is local culture that brings communities together, forging links between people and the places the live in, no matter their origin or background, and if we want local and national cultures to continue playing that role, then we must do everything to preserve their identity and uniqueness through all the cultural convolutions of an increasingly globalised world.