As we near the anniversary of my best friends death last year at the end of March, I keep thinking of the things she loved to talk about and that engaged her lively mind.
One of those things was her Irish heritage and her love of Irish music.
Though she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, Muff dreamed of singing the old standard Irish songs of the Dubliners, the Chieftans, the Irish Rovers and the Wolftones. She would roam about the campus at Clarke, humming Celtic tunes off key, thinking her thoughts and reveling in the campus' Irish feel and heritage.
When we went to Ireland together in March 2001, Muff and I enjoyed the nightly music in the Gogerty Pub in Temple Bar.
She would have adored this web site, and it makes me sad that I can't send it to her.
But here it is anyway, in honor of my dear friend, may she rest in peace and be enjoying many evenings of Irish story and song.
Somewhere a Voice is Calling: American Irish Musical Interpreters, 1850-1975
"Through the lives and careers of a few public musical figures, this exhibit shows some of the breadth of 'American Irish' vocal and instrumental music." Features essays, images, and sound clips of music by P.S. Gilmore, John McCormack, Michael Coleman and James Morrison, Francis O'Neill, Annie "Ma" McNulty, and the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. From Boston College University Libraries.
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LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27558
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