'Come west along the Road' Irish TV

Subject: 'Cpme west along the Road' Irish TV
From: MartinRyan
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:09 AM

"Come West along the Road" is a long-running series on Irish Television (RTE) which shows extracts from their archive of Irish traditional music, song and dance. It is produced and presented by Nicholas Carolan, director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).

A new series has just started and programmes are available online, worldwide for two weeks after broadcast. Highly recommended.

Click here.

Regards

p.s. They make you sit through a few ads first, I'm afraid!

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:31 AM

It's a real pity RTE isn't available on Freesat.

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Peter C
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:32 AM

There is a brilliant DVD from the series, really great value for money

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Rain Dog
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 02:17 PM

Thanks for posting the link. I enjoyed the first episode

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 09:10 AM

Watched this last night, and it was excellent as usual (there was even a quick shot of Packie in one of the scenes tho he wasn't playing) but: WHERE WAS NICHOLAS? All the link-ins & intros were subtitled and no genial presenter did we see or hear anywhere. Martin... any idea?

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 09:35 AM

Nicholas Carolan did a general introduction at the start of the programme, which was enough really wasn't it?

It was a good opening for the new series. Neilidh Mulligan was in great form. Enjoyed that. And the rest of it too.

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:23 AM

> which was enough really wasn't it?

No, not for me. I like the way it has been presented in the past, with Nicholas introducing each scene. I don't think subtitles are enough, particularly when he's such a good host. And I'm no wiser as to why it's changed...?

Fun to see a youthful Gavin with his curly locks -

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:51 AM

In the USA, KULTUR has issued 2 DVD's from the series.
In the UK, RTE has 3 DVD's.

Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 11:46 AM

Bonnie, I think Nicholas has good information but he is a bit wooden as a presenter. That said, he did introduce all items in the previous programme of this series so maybe this time he didn't because all items were taken from the same run of 'Long Note' programmes and there was little left to introduce.

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: MartinRyan
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 12:52 PM

Yeah - sometimes he introduces individual items, other times he lines up a single old programme or a group from a particular series. His great advantage is that he knows whereof he speaks. With his gentle delivery, of course, he's no Jimmy Saville!

Regards

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: GUEST,Syrup
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 01:35 PM

Nicholas should never have bought that wig.

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: MartinRyan
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 04:47 PM

Keep an eye out for tonight's programme (Dec. 2nd) when it is posted online. Lots of fine Northern singing from 1978/9 BBC programmes.

Regards

Subject: RE: 'Come west along the Road' Irish TV
From: MartinRyan
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:16 PM

The Dec. 2nd programme is currently available HERE

Regards