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“I can't say I have any defi-1 any gorxi song or tune. It can be [doesn’t look very promising.” it’s a minority who drive poor-1 a bad fate at ail.’*fall between (he fork prongs■adu-Higliemic, and: ofBillwingislryalsoionicJioirUrol)i-Inn, liely inarts 1 for Bill, er, I ng a with wordPub Singing Continues In Ireland; Dubliners Are Most Popular GroupBy IIIJGII A. MULLIGAN AP Newsfcalurcs WriterDUBLIN (AP) - Those who feared that Ireland’s singing pubs might disappear with the advent of Irish television need bother their heads no longer. Ballad singing is bigger than ever in the Ould Sod. Where five years ago only Ihc Clancy Brothers were known outside of Ireland, there arc now dozens of folk singing groups in demand on ihc continent, making reputations as far away as Austrialia and New Zealand through their recordings.In I he north of Ireland, pubs close at 10:30 p.m. In the Free Stale* ilia traditional Time,Gentlemen” is proclaimed on hour later. But the Irish learned long ago to cope with such oppressive laws by the simple expedient of starling earlier, which means that the singing in most of Ireland's singing pubs often gels underway as early as 7:30 p.m., or as soon as the lads have had lime (o dampen a tonsil with a jar or two,For those who have never been to a singing pub, where ihc entertainment is always spontaneous, often hilarious and usually anti-British in innuendo, an album called “The Dubliners in Concert (Transatlantic Records) might serve as a good Introduction.AT THE MOMENT, the Dubliners arc Ireland's most popular folk singing group. Led by guitarist Konnic Crew and featuring banjo wizard Barney McKenna, they sing the most uproarious Irish folk songs, like “Mrs. McGrath,” “Finnegan’s Wake” and Domcnic Bohan’s moving but cynical, “The Palri-ol Game, in a harshly nasalDublin accent that is sometimes a bit difficult to understand but always worth I ho effort. The Dubliners hit big in the British markcL and became the rage of London with their exlmbcranl rendering of “The Wild Rover, a roguish South African drinking song about a Jcllow whopromises “nay, no, never to spend all his money again on whiskey and beer.When they’re not making recordings or ducking over to Liverpool to beat the Beatles in their own lair, Ihc Dubliners can be heard and seen most any nightat Donahue’s Pub, one of Dublin’s more famous singing bars.And just a few blocks from them, at Parnell House near Nelson’s Pillar, “The Moonshiners” regale packed houses with a rowdy selection of Irish revolutionary songs. How Ihc impressionable Irish have refrained all Ihc sc years from blowing the British Lord Nelsonoil his high pedestal overlookingO’Connell Street is no fault of the Moonshiners, who have hcen urging insurrection in delightful song and ditty nightly for the past several years.BUT THE FEELING against the British has so died down that occasionally the buckos even dare to sing “Me Old Orange Flute,” a hilarious ballad from Prolcslanl Ulster about an Orangeman who married “a Papist named Brigid O’Flynn” and met will) a rash of trouble when he went to play his Protestant flute in a Catholic clioir-lofL. The Moonshiners, who work for Irish Airlines by day and sing lo cure a mighty thirst atnight, have gained something of a reputation in America by virtue of their visits the past two St. Patrick’s Days.But lo hear Irish ballad singing at its besi in most authentic surroundings take a trip out In Howlh, seven miles north of Dublin, where the comely Widow Minnie Lennon presides at the Abbey Tavern, one of those real drinking pubs with shiny brass handles on the stout pulls and row on row of Irish whisky bottles.There the “Ludlow Group,” four boys, two girls, a fiddle, aflute and a pair of spoons (Irc-(Continued on Page five)
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Sat, Jul 17, 1965
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