anyone know the irish descendants of nf

Subject: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: mg
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 06:42 PM

Hope this isn't a duplicate. THought I had posted it earlier. Anyway, I would love to talk with someone who knows them because I want to know if they would be insulted if I asked if they wanted to be on the codfish cd...best version of let me fish off cape st. mary's.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 06:59 PM

nf?

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:04 PM

Newfoundland?
Do you mean Irish with ancestors from Newfoundland,
or Newfoundlanders with ancestors from Ireland....

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: mg
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 08:26 PM

IT IS

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: mg
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 08:26 PM

a musical group.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 08:37 PM

This lot, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irish_Descendants

Doesn't look like my sort of thing, but they can't be hard to contact, surely?

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: GUEST,Fiddlefanhci
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 08:37 PM

They're very good, great voices. D'Arcy Broderick is an excellent fiddler. And they're natives of Newfoundland (accent on the LAND, by the way) with Irish forebears.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 08:53 PM

There's an interesting thread on "Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's" here (click). The song was written by Otto Kelland, and we have the date of publication as 1947.

I found a Cape St. Mary's on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Are we sure the cape the song addresses, is in Newfoundland?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: meself
Date: 19 Jan 17 - 10:18 PM

Pretty unlikely that Otto Kelland, a life-long Newfoundlander, would set his nostalgic song about the life of a fisherman in Nova Scotia. However, he could have just pulled the name out of the air - but I would be very surprised if it's not an actual location in Nfld. Possible that the name of the place has changed .....

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 06:46 AM

I thought I posted this but it seems to have got lost, or the nutcase mod deleted it - but D'Arcy Broderick hasn't been in the band for 20 years, if the Wikipedia entry is right. So he's one you won't be wanting to contact.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 11:20 AM

Pretty unlikely that Otto Kelland, a life-long Newfoundlander, would set his nostalgic song about the life of a fisherman in Nova Scotia.

Don't Newfie fishermen ever go that far? Cod fishermen used to cross most of the Atlantic fom Europe, centuries ago. I'd have expected them to go wherever the fish were.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: mg
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 04:31 PM

I think the one in NS is cape st. mary without the s. it is definitely newfoundland and is now a bird sanctuary.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: JMB
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 02:30 PM

I would try to contact them via their website.

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: mg
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 07:10 PM

their website leads to a german dating site

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: JMB
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 07:18 PM

O my! I wonder how else to find them?

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jan 17 - 07:43 PM

Looks like the Irish Descendants forgot to renew their Website registration. They perform regularly at O'Reilly's Irish Newfoundland Pub. I'm sure the pub can help you get in contact with them.

The Irish Descendants also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/THE-IRISH-DESCENDANTS-55094049911/.

Ryan's Fancy (Dermot O'Reilly was a member) also performs at O'Reilly's.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: meself
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 12:18 PM

"Don't Newfie fishermen ever go that far?"

It would be unlikely for a Nfld fisherman to go to the Bay of Fundy in a Cape Anne to fish , I would think, though not impossible - an Inuit man once told me that he flew to Prince Edward Island to buy a Cape Anne, then sailed it back to his home on Ungava Bay - a considerable journey by any measure.

(Btw, some Nfldrs, though certainly not all, take offence at the term 'Newfie').

Subject: RE: anyone know the irish descendants of nf
From: GUEST,IRISHMUSICLOVER
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 08:06 PM

I KNOW OF THE IRISH DESCENDANTS THIS IS THE BAND NAME THEY PLAY A MIXTURE OF WHAT WE CALL NEWFIE IRISH MUSIC AND I WANT TO ADD CAPE ST MARYS IS IN NFLD DONT MIND BEING CALLED NEWFIE