Negative Space: Ireland
- Against the Flowing Tide: Whiskey and Temperance in the Making of Modern Ireland
- George Bretherton follows the growth of temperance in Ireland, both among protestants and Catholics.
- Buttery foil-baked potatoes for National Potato Day
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National Potato Day is tomorrow. And it’s a great day to grill. Here’s a simple foil-wrapped potato and onion recipe for the grill or the oven.
- In Good Taste
- Review of In Good Taste, with a recipe for Rich Carrot Soup.
- The Quiet Man
- Probably the best John Wayne/John Ford movie I’ve seen, mostly because I’m not particularly a big fan of westerns (I also really liked “Allegheny Uprising”). Here, John Wayne plays a boxer returning to his Irish home and falling in love with Maureen O’Hara. He ends up at cultural loggerheads with his love’s brother and his love. Big problem with the DVD: the audio doesn’t play on Pioneer 414s! Owners of other models of players have also noted low quality audio, although most of them can actually hear it to judge.
- That you may not be the martyred slaves of time
- That you may not be the martyred slaves of time, get drunk. Get drunk and never pause for rest. And listen to the Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem.
More Information
- Makem and Clancy, Get Drunk, Ar Fol La Lo
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From a 1977 concert in Dublin, Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, I think, reciting French poetry and singing of rebellion.
- Irish Songs of Rebellion•
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One of the first Makem & Clancy albums I bought, I found it at the local library book sale, and it hooked me into buying quite a few more. This one includes many of the classics: Whack Fol the Diddle, Eamonn an Chniuic, Nell Flaherty’s Drake, Boulavogue, D Donnell Aboo, The Croppy Boy, The Rising of the Moon, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and more. Unfortunately, the CD doesn’t have a good reputation; I don’t know, as I have this on vinyl.
- The Makem and Clancy Concert•
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Live versions of some of my favorite Makem & Clancy tunes. Besides Liam’s version of Baudelaire’s “Get Drunk” it includes The Dutchman, Rambles of Spring, Sound the Pibroch, Mary Mac, and their version of The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda.
- Men Behind the Sweaters
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Youtube channel of the Clancy Brothers, with lots of great videos of the group.
