Irish Showbands - A website dedicated to the bands that played Ireland's dancehalls and ballrooms from 1950 through 1990. Special sections on rock, pop, and country bands of the 70's and 80's, with press coverage.
Irish Showbands & Beat-Groups Archive - Gathering of information on and photographs of Irish showbands and beat-groups from 1955-1975, with photos and some notes on acts, sections on advertising and record sleeves, directory of musicians and some sample lyrics.
Traditional Irish Music Tunebook - A collection of dance tunes collected from sessions and various recordings displayed as .gif images.
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Styles "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Styles
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Styles Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Styles
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Styles "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Styles
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Styles Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Styles
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Styles "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Styles
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Styles No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Styles People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Styles
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Styles "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Styles
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Styles If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Styles
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Styles All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Styles
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Styles "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Styles
