The supportive shouts from the audience are great - here's a translation of a few of them if you don't speak Irish 'Ná bac anois!' (Don't mind him now, said when the guy on the right laughs right after he starts) 'Dia go deo leat [a mhac?] ' (God be with you forever [my son]) 'Buail faoi do chosa é!' (Strike it [i.e. the floor] under your feet!) and my personal favourite - simply 'Yeehaw!'
Just priceless.... thank God we have the technology to capture this stuff for future generations. I love the little grunts of approval that come in, whenever he does a fancy step...!
Fantastique, joli document d'archive, ç a fait du bien de retrouver le plaisir des choses simples et sans artifices... et si c'était ça le bonheur ? Bravo : 5 ***** Fantastic, beautiful document archive, it feels good to regain the pleasure of simple things ... et si c'était ça le bonheur? Bravo: 5 *****
There was a time and all this stuff was almost never played on our national airways....Only for people like Ciarán Mac Mathuna and Tony MacMahon...most of these musicians/singers/dancers would never have been heard of...Different story now Irish music,song and dance are loved all over the world...
From a programme that was presented by Tony Mac Mahon (Box Player) in 1972 called Ag Déanamh Ceol (Making Music)...They were great programmes but most of them have been lost or forgotten about.
That looks like Seamus Ennis sitting three seats to the left of the whistle player, and to the right of the whisltle player is a lad with glasses and a sweater, his arms crossed. Could that be Tony MacMahon?
