The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4808 Message #532140
Posted By: Alice
20-Aug-01 - 09:04 PM
Thread Name: Where is Spancil Hill?
Subject: RE: Where is Spancil Hill?
I got Robbie's tape out again today to listen, and right now am listening to "The Fleadh Down in Ennis". It names so many people, where they came from and what they played or sang. In the cassette notes, Robbie writes, "I wrote this song after the 1956 all-Ireland Fleadh that was held in Ennis and I sang it the following year for Ciaran MacMathuna in Dungarvan. Of the people mentioned in this song, there are only six left now." One of my favorites on this tape is the one Robbie wrote about himself and his Spancilhill home, called "My House On The Hill".