Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle
Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open...
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Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open spaces and through crowded pubs and festivals that pulse with energy and life. This is the Ireland of fiddles, harps and flutes, butterflies on bog roads, Country-and-Irish songs, Ulster Fries, storytelling, yarn spinning, and jigs and reels to the crack of dawn.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780773513440 (0773513442)
Publish date: August 16th 1995
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
I knew I was asking for trouble by buying this at a Unionist book store in Northern Ireland. The author was born to Scots-Irish parents in Northern Ireland and became a professor of Celtic studies in Toronto. Toronto is historically an Orange (protestant) stronghold I've read. He does take pains at ...
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