I can't count the number of times I saw them in concert with my whole family in attendance, parents, aunts uncles cousins great aunts great uncles what warm memories as we got older, cousins went together to concerts.....
My dad used to spit in his fingers tips when he used his tools and instruments for his work to run smoother. Because his skin on his fingertips was dry, he wet them to get grip on his work . It worked every time. Just lovely.
how funny we would never see that today for a myriad of reasons. I still lick my fingers to turn a page, as I saw my grandparents and my parents do My daughters look at me like I'm crazy
V interesting but not surprising to me. Huge Irish shame re poverty and denigration of own culture probably borne out of a colonised internalised mindset. So the Irish built bits of America and the Americans made the Irish feel better than they ever could at home. Somewhat similar was the story of The Pogues in London. It’s always interested me and is easily decipherable, there is such a thing as an Irish American identity which one can be proud of (JFK, Grace Kelly, many thousands of other well known ppl); but there is NO SUCH THING as a British Irish identity. You must be one or the other. The colonised cannot take on the identity of the coloniser and retain their own.
Tommy makem an Armagh/keady legend, as I'm from keady myself thanks for ur music u and the clancy bros
I can't count the number of times I saw them in concert with my whole family in attendance, parents, aunts uncles cousins great aunts great uncles what warm memories as we got older, cousins went together to concerts.....
Wonderful
Who is left to act out the old ways, eg the song of the cobbler and his shoe repair...
too beautiful to forget!
I feel very lucky that I actually saw him the the Auditorium Theratre in Chicago singing.
I miss all of them so much.
This is really great. thanks for posating.
My dad used to spit in his fingers tips when he used his tools and instruments for his work to run smoother.
Because his skin on his fingertips was dry, he wet them to get grip on his work .
It worked every time.
Just lovely.
how funny we would never see that today for a myriad of reasons. I still lick my fingers to turn a page, as I saw my grandparents and my parents do My daughters look at me like I'm crazy
No one else can do it the same!
Nobody!
stupidcat39 spot on
Its to keep the string from sticking
When Tommy is singing tom even try's to be the centre of attention then
V interesting but not surprising to me. Huge Irish shame re poverty and denigration of own culture probably borne out of a colonised internalised mindset. So the Irish built bits of America and the Americans made the Irish feel better than they ever could at home. Somewhat similar was the story of The Pogues in London. It’s always interested me and is easily decipherable, there is such a thing as an Irish American identity which one can be proud of (JFK, Grace Kelly, many thousands of other well known ppl); but there is NO SUCH THING as a British Irish identity. You must be one or the other. The colonised cannot take on the identity of the coloniser and retain their own.
The spittin is cos he's impersonating a cobbler so he wets the string with spit.
I wondered what all the spitting was about