Thanks for posting, Michael. Your Da earned all the respect we could give him, and more, too. Just two nights ago, I closed our Portland, Oregon song circle with his version of "Kind Friends and Companions" and told about how Paddy clinked his tea cup with each singer's beer glass in turn around the circle to that song at the end of a session at the Kilkenny Fleadh so many years ago.

May the sod lie lightly.... And may the tradition continue to flourish!

David