We’re very pleased to announce that Barry Gleeson has joined the bill for our Pieta House fundraiser next Thursday in The Sugar Club.
The blog celebrates Dublin’s very rich musical heritage, which has involved everything from compiling (and often uploading!) a timeline of Dublin punk and new wave 7″s to providing a spotlight to new and emerging acts, across a range of fields. It has also involved looking at Dublin talents like Frank Harte and the wonderful Liam Weldon, traditional singers who knew how to carry stories through the medium of songs. Liam Weldon was once described as being “as Dublin as the Easter Rising, and as Irish as the Love Songs of Connacht or the Limerick Soviet that got clobbered.”
The line-up we have assembled for Thursday is varied, spanning all from street artist Maser to young hip hop artist Costello, and reflecting the broadest possible range of Dubliners. Tradition is hugely important to us however, and nowhere is it more evidently found in Dublin than in institutions like the Góilín Singers’ Club. Barry Gleeson is a fine Dublin singer, and a voice that may be familiar to readers of Come Here To Me having shared the stage with our favourite “folk miscreants” Lynched in the past. From Artane in Dublin, his song subjects range from the brilliantly humorous (hear his ode to nightclub Tomango’s!) to songs which examine Irish political and social history.
Remembering the early days of the Góilín Club in The Thomas House, Gleeson recalled “There’d often be only about seven of us on Thursday nights in Thomas House. I really enjoyed it. Our names would be called out at the end of the night – fame at last!” Clubs like the Góilín, and institutions like the Irish Traditional Music Archive, have proven invaluable in preserving a most important oral tradition. Gleeson is a joy to listen to, and we hope you’ll join us on Thursday to enjoy it.
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Donal
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Dear ComeHereToMe,
My name is Fionnán O’Connor and i’m a longtime reader of your outstanding social history. Anyway, I’m a volunteer on the committee of the Irish Whiskey Society and this coming saturday we’ll be leading a member’s tour through the physical remains of Dublin’s rich distilling history and i wanted to extend an invitation as a small thanks for how much i’ve learned from your own blog. I’ve spent the last three years writing a book on the history and revival of traditional Irish pot still whiskey and i have no idea if any of this history might be of tangential value to your own research topics. The walk will be on Saturday, June 6th and should cover most of Dublin’s abandoned distilleries (with the exception of DWD out by Croke Park) and a lunchtime talk with your old StoryMap collaborator fireman Las Fallon about the 1870s whiskey fire. In any case, keep up the great work and let me know if you’d like a space or two held for you.
regards,
Fionnán