“It’s of a pretty female as you may understand,
Her mind being bent for rambling into some foreign land.
She dressed herself in sailor’s clothes or so it does appear,
And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year.”
All Welcome!
rioann@gmail.com or baldtiler@yahoo.ie
For a’ that, an’ a’ that, / It’s coming yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man, the warld o’er, /Shall brithers be for a’ that
‘There’s coopers there an curers there an buyers, canny chiels
An lassies at the picklin an ithers at the creels
An you’ll wish the fish had been a’ left in the sea
By the time you finish guttin herrin on the Yarmouth quay’.
Fisher lassies in Pittenweem, Fife
‘Bhí fuinneamh sa stoirm a éalaigh aréir, / Aréir Oíche Nollaig na mBan,
As gealt-teach iargúlta atá laistiar den ré / Is do scréach tríd an spéir chughainn ‘na gealt
Seán Ó Riordáin, ‘Oíche Nollaig na mBan’
Howth Singing Circle – January Session
‘Songs for Nollaig na mBan’
Bean an Tí – Niamh Parsons
Three in a Row – Graham Dunne (Guitar)
Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 9pm
Abbey Tavern
all musicians, singers & listeners welcome
Admission €4
‘The only thing better than singing is more singing’, Ella Fitzgerald
all musicians, singers, listeners welcome
HSC April session
Thursday 7th April
9 pm Abbey Tavern, Howth.
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/songs/cmc/easter_snow_jlyons.htm
This night will also feature the inauguration of the HSC’s first President! So come along and pay tribute to a HSC stalwart!
Friday, 8 April – HSC singers will do a spot at the Howth-Sutton-Baldoyle 1916 night singing songs from 1916 – event starts at 8pm
Saturday, 9 April – we sing in the Sutton Methodist Church Singathon for the Hospice – our slot starts at 1.30. Details on Thusrday or from Ann Riordan – rioann@gmail.com
Lastly, thanks to all who made Fidil Bus a Trí to Glenties – what a wonderful weekend with exquisite music from Donegal, Ireland generally, Scotland and Brittany.
A presentation in song, poetry and pictures of
‘Irish Songs & Poems
from the First World War’
as performed in City Hall and the National Museum of Ireland
featuring
Luke Cheevers, Brian Doyle, Robert Kelly, Niamh Parsons,
Ann Riordan & Fergus Russell
Followed by monthly Singing Session
