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22 Jun 20 - 07:24 AM (#4060714) Subject: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Jim Carroll For anybody interested; I've just completed a far-too-long article on local song-making over the last century and a half in County Clare - title 'Breaking Wind in Church' It includes the texts of 22 of these from our own collection, most of these can be listened to on the Clare County Library website This is the third of what I hope to be a series of articles on traditional singing; the first two were on Walter Pardon and Ballad seller, singer and storyteller, Mikeen McCarthy, a Traveller from Kerry They are all available for download on the Academia site - limited free membership - otherwise, I'll send copies to anybody who wants them. Copies of the recorded examples of all three also up for grabs on request CLARE LIBRARY WEBSITE Jim |
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22 Jun 20 - 03:10 PM (#4060811) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Steve Gardham Got all 3, Jim. Keep em coming. Got 3 separate emails for 'Church' one saying 'Final.....' |
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23 Jun 20 - 02:33 AM (#4060874) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Jim Carroll Thanks steve - would welcome your comments I'm torn between an over-long talk I once did on the link between history and song and an expansion of te 'Irish Child Ballads' one I did in Belfast Jim |
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23 Jun 20 - 02:45 AM (#4060875) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Joe Offer Very nicely done, Jim. -Joe- |
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23 Jun 20 - 04:26 AM (#4060887) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Andrez Hello Jim, following on from all the other wonderful articles, tomes and music you've shared with me in the past, I'd love to get a link to a copy of your most recent article as discussed above. You are a living folk treasure. Kind regards and best wishes, Andrez |
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23 Jun 20 - 04:54 AM (#4060891) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: GUEST,Peter Laban You may need to sign up to the site but this should get you there: Breaking wind in church Hope it's OK to post it. |
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23 Jun 20 - 05:04 AM (#4060893) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Jim Carroll Hi Andrez I'll post all the articles (so far) to you today Thanks for your kind words Thanks for posting it Peter Jim |
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23 Jun 20 - 06:01 AM (#4060906) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Andrez Looking forward to your email Jim. Thanks once more for sharing. Heres hoping your corner of Ireland is relatively or completely free of CV2 so your work can keep on happening. If it all gets too much over there there's always a place for you and yours to have a kip and a pint for as long as you need at our place in on the remote East Coast of Australia. Cheers, Andre |
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23 Jun 20 - 06:16 AM (#4060910) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Jim Carroll The lock-down has been an opportunity to get down to writing and re-writing some of the things I am now tackling I've been praying for rain so I don't have to cut the grass Clare was one of the first to have a case of the virus - a local doctor's family brought it back from Portugal Having said that, we've been extremely lucky (if you can call closing the pubs down "luck" I'd love to get to Australia - Ewan came back from there saying if he'd been younger he'd move there You'll get it later in one of the articles, but do you know this ? - it was probably the last ballad sheet to be sold in Ireland - in the 1950s ? Jim THE BAR WITH NO STOUT Now we’ve heard quite a lot of the Pub with no Beer, And some people claim it's the hit of the year, But during the war I was rambling about, And I called for a Pint in a Bar with no Stout. The bar owner sat on a chair by the fire, I’ d swear if you touched him he’d scrape like a brier, When I said “Fill a Pint” then his rag he got out, Saying “Your order is tall in the Bar with no Stout". A customer came in a donkey and car, He tied up his ass and took in a big jar, But the ass jumped and reared, from the door he pulled out, Its no place for an ass near a Bar with no Stout A customer came in a donkey and car, He tied up his ass and took in a big jar, But the ass jumped and reared, from the door he pulled out, 1t's no place for an ass near a Bar with no Stout. The Garda on duty the first time in years, Came back from his beat all shaken with fears, The Sergeant said Pat, why you look knocked about, He stammered and told him the Bar's got no Stout. The Postman returned from his rounds on the street, And when he had entered his time on the sheet, The Postmaster seeing no froth round his mouth, Guessed on the spot that the Bar had no Stout. Now ’tis lonesome to part with the one you love dear, Or to sit on a stool in a Pub with no Beer But there’s nothing more lonesome without any doubt, Than to call for a Pint in a Bar with no Stout., |
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24 Jun 20 - 07:04 AM (#4061143) Subject: RE: Origins: Locally Made Songs, County Clare From: Andrez Love it Jim and thanks for the articles too. Cheers, Andrez |