Today was my first time ever in an empty Matt Molloy's pub 😀. Well, nearly empty anyways.
A real privilege to have a private session with Carlos Sweeney McCartin as we worked on a cover pic for their forthcoming album.
With John McCartin, Dylan Carlos and Céin Mac Suibhne
Iron Mountain Literature Festival
The wonderful Fionnuala Maxwell singing in Rynn’s Pub Ballinaglera Co. Leitrim, the last stop rounding off a great festival weekend.
With Edwina Guckian at The Mummers’ Party in Mount Allen Eco Farm #Leitrim to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg. CreativeIrl #CreativeIreland
Home Before Dark
Hip Hip for the Whoopers, arriving on the lake this evening from Iceland.
Nearly makes up for the swallows departing .
We had a great night remembering the late Mickey Boland at the O'Carolan Harp Festival and Summer School in Keadue last night. Eugene Murphy and the festival committee paid Mickey great tributes and the audience showed their appreciation for the man who loved the door dancing competition so much.
Thanks very much to Pat Gilligan for this video clip, I’ll post a link to the Sunday Miscellany piece about Mickey Boland in the comments below but I’m not sure if it works outside Ireland.
Kilty Remembers
What an amazing evening in Kiltyclogher when musicians performed to remember lost loved ones.
Here’s a short clip which does no justice to Ciara Brennan, Maurice Lennon and Chris Dawson but it might just give you a taste of an amazing occasion.
Drumsoghla Light Show.
When the day doesn’t want to end
When the evening and the weather come in together
It’s time to turn.
Monday Morning Music.
Kicked off the week with this bunch
Seamie O’Dowd, Cathy Jordan and Rick Epping (The Unwanted) and the lucky people in the Roscommon Teaching Residency blasting it out in King House.
Roscommon County Council
Music Network
Drumsoghla Nocturne
Lough Arrow County Sligo
The Cuckoo Flower dances to a different tune.
Won’t be long now.
Not a Tern battling the storm
But a sliver
The Young Moon
Bathing in Lough Arrow.
Here Comes I Jack Straw
Mummers Eleanor Shanley, John McCartin and Padraig McGovern walking the lanes of Leitrim this afternoon and bringing music to homes in the Keshcarrigan/Kilnagross area.
25 musicians across 15 Leitrim communities will be adding to the quality of the day for the rest of the year and all part of a great project led by the seed sower, hat weaver and recent mother of two Edwina Guckian.
Swan Attack Lough Key Forest & Activity Park
Travelling Sessions on the Cavan&Leitrim Railway, Dromod.
Eleanor Shanley Forever Young.
John McCartin Catherine Jordan Edwina Guckian
The Buzzard was about
Its eerie cry
Clashing
With the chatter of a swallow's brood
Chasing flies
The pup and I rose
Pushing through high rushes.
Buzzards
My lens was buried in a wildflower
As I knelt to pay homage.
Releasing the shutter before my breath
It synced with their cry
How Far
How High
I wondered
Rising and inhaling
The blood slow to my head
My face skyward
And there
By the forestry
Three by trees
At sport and play
Soaring and dropping
Wings pointed
Now broad
And cry cry cry
Let the wind carry them this way
And let me lie on my back
On a bed of rushes
Holding my breath
And releasing.
