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Ossian USA - Information about this supplier of hard-to-find traditional Irish music, with news, store information and catalogue, contact data and links.
Danny Burke - Brief words, a sample air and photos from this traditional Irish Fiddle player based in Doolin, Co. Clare.
G8INA Irish Music and Links - Links to Irish Music sites, with comments, plus a large number of tunes and song lyrics to download.
Davy Rogers' Traditional Irish Guitar TABs - Free Downloads of TABs (TablEdit .TEF format) & MIDIs of Davy Rogers' Guitar Arrangements of Traditional Irish Tunes, O'Carolan Compositions and davy Rogers' Compositions
Patricia Cahill - Official information, including biography, discography, pictures, MP3 samples and a contact e-mail.
Irish Folk Music - Large collection of Irish folk music in midi format along with the lyrics of many songs.
Connaught Fleadh Festival - Traditional Irish music festival held in a different town in Connaught every year, there will be musical competitions and concerts.
Mad For Trad - Comprehensive information including Irish CDs, tutorials, news, tunes, festivals, session listings and links.
The Cassidys - Information on traditional Gaelic songs and instrumental music.
The Real Eleanor Shanley Website - Biography, discography, lyrics, media material, gallery and links for female folksinger Eleanor Shanley.
Mick Moloney - Includes biography, articles and gig schedule.
irish-music.net - Categorised links for Irish music, including summer schools, festivals and CDs. Also carries feature articles.
Barleyshakes, The - Folk band touring widely. Includes their history, information about their recordings and pictures.
Brian McNamara - Information on master uilleann piper.
Bakerloo Junction - Photographs and information about the group.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Traditional, Folk and Celtic When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Traditional, Folk and Celtic The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Traditional, Folk and Celtic "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Traditional, Folk and Celtic Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Traditional, Folk and Celtic It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Traditional, Folk and Celtic There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Traditional, Folk and Celtic Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Traditional, Folk and Celtic "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Traditional, Folk and Celtic We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Traditional, Folk and Celtic Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Traditional, Folk and Celtic You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Traditional, Folk and Celtic Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Traditional, Folk and Celtic Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Traditional, Folk and Celtic True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Traditional, Folk and Celtic If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Traditional, Folk and Celtic Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Traditional, Folk and Celtic Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Traditional, Folk and Celtic Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Traditional, Folk and Celtic This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Traditional, Folk and Celtic When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Traditional, Folk and Celtic I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Traditional, Folk and Celtic
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