nobaody has mentioned here that Paddy already issued a follow-up to the Stone Fiddle, "Where Songs do Thunder"

Probably more will be written/said about Paddy Tunney anon; sometimes newspapers publish a personal "appreciation" some time after a person has died. I saw one a couple of months after a community worker I knew died of throat cancer. I knew he'd been ill but had been out of touch and hadn't heard of his death and I didn't know what to write to his widow after that gap in time.