Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Celtic Roots Craic 72 – Lockdown, self-isolation and St. Patrick

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St. Patrick – drawing Well suddenly the world has become a very strange place indeed! New phrases have entered our vocabulary to stay –...

Celtic Roots Craic 71 – The 'black stuff' – a traveller's tale!

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The Bush Bar, Blacklion, Co. Sligo Well, life can be a wee bit unpredictable, wouldn’t ye say? The whole world seems to have gone tot...

Celtic Roots Craic 70 – Down at 'The Yard' – The Titanic Quarter

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Filming the Titanic Quarter from the Goliath Crane (100m up) Now, I live down the road from Belfast – otherwise known as B’lfahst! – ...

Celtic Roots Craic 69 – Balagan – 'What are ye like?'

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Balagan – a travelling puppet show, or a mess! Here’s an interesting word for ye – balagan . It means a mess, but it could be the nam...

Celtic Roots Craic 68 – 'R'aper blades and the 'glass hammer'

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Tilley lamp (as sold in Redmond Jefferson's store) A wee bit a’ history here. When I was about 15, or 16, I used to work in the s...

Celtic Roots Craic 67 – 1798, a bridge and 'the priest's grave'

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Kilmore Parish Church re-built in Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra,  Co. Down Well, we’ve looked at some further away parts of the Celtic...
Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Celtic Roots Craic 66 – Columbanus – how the Irish saved civilisation!

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St. Columbanus in stained glass window At the moment I still live in Conlig – between Bangor and Newtownards, though we’ll soon be mo...
Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Celtic Roots Craic 65 – 'Ye cannae take our freedom!

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Scottish highland bagpipes I got into a whole history of Galicia last time – which I found interesting, I don’t know about yous? – a...

Celtic Roots Craic 64 – Galicia – the Cinderella of Celtic nations

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Galician flag You might have noticed we’ve been playing a lot more Breizh music – from Brittany – on recent shows? That’s because sever...

Celtic Roots Craic 63 – Roast potatoes, chips 'n' mash!

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Fried farls of potato bread There is one thing that people always associate with Ireland, although they actually originated in the Amer...