BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?

Subject: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:01 PM

Fiona and I are off to Dublin to celebrate her 21st birthday. We'll be there from Thursday to Tuesday.....any recommendations?

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 04:05 AM

Friday : Goleen singers CLub Mayes of Dorset Street (near city centre) Click here for website.
Regards

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 05:00 AM

Theres a bar next to the bus station which did have a session on a Monday night. Cannot recall its name. In you stand looking at the front of the station it is the road to the left,it may still be going

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: Declan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 05:08 AM

I'm impressed that the Goleen has a website, but the link didn't work for me. If you like unaccompanied traditional singing, this is one you shouldn't miss.

If you want to hear tunes here are a few starting points :

The Chancery Inn (new name over the door maybe O Reilly's) on the Quays (banks of the Liffey) near the Four Courts on Thursday night.

Hughes Pub Chancery Street, (very near to the Chancery Inn) any night. There's usually a session in the front part of the Pub (the snug) if you want to join in and another in the back which has excellent musicians, but not so friendly for joining in usually.

The Cobblestone, Smithfield usually a session or two at ground floor level and a venue upstairs for pay in gigs (usually folk or at least acoustic stuff). Sunday lunch-time session in the bar (1-4pm ish) is usually good here.

During the day (4-7?) there are sessions in a few pubs in the Temple Bar area, including in The Oliver StJohn Gogarty. These tend to be put on mainly for tourists, but there are some good players in some of these sessions. Have a walk around Temple Bar and try a few different ones to see if you can find something you particularly like before settling in to one of them.

There are sessions in Temple Bar at night as well, but there's usually better to be found elsewhere. On the other hand for someone celebrating a 21st Temple Bar is a part of town where they'll meet plenty of people their own age.

I don't get into the City Centre too much these days, so there may be a lot going on that I haven't heard about - go to some of the places I've mentioned and try talking to the Musicians or some of the people actually listening to the session (the bar staff probably won't have much of a clue).

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: GUEST,Maritn Ryan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 05:14 AM

Ha! A bad slip on my part - it uses the Irish spelling:

Goilin Singers Club

The site is basic at the moment - but will be further developed, no doubt.

Regards

p.s. I'll be there - for the first time this season, as it happens.

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I repaired the link - inserted 'http://'. Other attempts deleted. --JoeClone

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: Declan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 05:32 AM

Thanks Martin, and a nice site.

The Make a link "blue clicky" thing at the bottom of the poage doesn't work propoerly. I've been caught out by this a few times myself. By the way it should be a good night tomorrow with Bruce Scott (from Liverpool) as guest - a lovely man with great songs.

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 05:38 AM

Yes Declan - I know Bruce alright. He's a regular at the Inishowen festival and, as you say, a lovely man.

Regards

p.s. I don't mind clicky-generator not working but when I tried putting it in simple HTML, some extraneous bits were added to boot!

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: My guru always said
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:51 AM

Mortica & Fiona: Have fun!!

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:30 AM

The link maker thingie works exactly the way it's supposed to.

It makes a link of whatever address you put in as the URL. This should be exactly what shows in the address bar when you go there.

In this case, it's http://www.goilin.com/
The http:// is what tells a browser to go to another site. If you leave it off, browsers will look for the page on the site they already have open - Mudcat. That's where the extra bits came from - it defaulted to the Mudcat server and automatically stuck them in.

It can make it a lot easier to type links in. If you're making a link to a Mudcat thread, you don't have to type in 'http://www.mudcat.org/' because people already have gotten that far.
If you make a link to a message within a thread, as I do below, you don't have to type in the 'http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=53814" (or whatever the number is) because people are already in that thread. For the link below, I just entered '#830502' - the message number.

Martin's link up there in this post works now.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled program programme.

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 10:25 AM

Jeri

Thanks! I should know all that but was having a bad day!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: anything going on in Dublin from 21-11?
From: Morticia
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 02:40 PM

thanks guys....if you see a very pretty young woman wearing a tiara with flashing lights spelling out 21,in the company of an embarrased looking mother....that's us :)