The Great Outdoors - 22aug2024

The program is sponsored by Galway Rural Development Social Inclusion Community Activation Program. They are hosting a Biodiversity Summer School in partnership with Notre Dame University. The event will have various speakers and workshops on biodiversity and conservation. It will take place on August 31st and September 1st at Kylemore. People can sign up for different sessions through Eventbrite. The aim is to educate and promote collaboration among different groups working on biodiversity. The event will have both indoor and outdoor activities. The timetable and booking information can be found on Greenside Ireland's website and social media platforms. Overall, it's a great opportunity to learn about biodiversity and get involved in conservation efforts. This program is sponsored by Galway Rural Development Social Inclusion Community Activation Program. Contact 091-574-858. Welcome to the great outdoors, here on Connemara Community Radio, 87.8 and 106.1 FM. Fáilte a Róis, go raibh maith agaibh agaibh agaibh, and Cláire, you're all very welcome to our program here this evening. We have a very full show, and very shortly in our eco-slot I'll be speaking with Rory McKenna, who's Communications Administrator with Greenside Ireland, talking about a summer school which is coming up. We'll also have Mary Carey talking about the domestic arts section of Connemara, a pony show, and the results of that. Elaine Hulaghan, who's President of Macmillan Pharma, is going to talk to us about making the Move, a mental health initiative to help combat and raise awareness around suicides in the farming community. Emmett MacLyne, the Public Relations Officer with the Uchtdorf Agricultural Show, will be talking about the show, and then straight after our break, at the top of the hour, we'll have Donald Murphy, who's a musician with a wonderful group, and they'll be giving us a talk about a concert that comes up in Clifton, but we're going to go over now to our eco-slot, just now. The Eco-slot on Connemara Community Radio, a weekly programme focusing on environmental and climate sustainability. This programme is co-funded by Commissioner Lamond, through the Sound and Vision Scheme. Right on our eco-slot this evening, I'm delighted to welcome Rory McKenna, who's Communications Administrator with Greensad Ireland. Rory, you're very welcome to us here on Connemara Community Radio. Hi Brendan, nice to meet you, and thanks very much for having us on. No problem at all. I suppose before we go on to this particular event that's taking place, tell us a little bit about Greensad Ireland. Yes, certainly, so they're an environmental charity, they're a land trust, they have sites around the country that they protect, and they were set up back in 2008 with the aims of protecting these sites, first and foremost for nature, so they're sites where there's no sort of human activity or human focus on it, and then alongside that then we run different education events and stuff. And then specifically to Connemara, and part of the reason we're running this event in Connemara is one of the sites is in Salarock, on the coast there, Lytton Killary, that we've managed for a number of years as well. Yeah, that's kind of a very brief information of what we do with it. Okay, so you're working in partnership with Notre Dame University and holding the Biodiversity Summer School, 31st of August and 1st of September. What exactly are you planning to do? So we've pulled together a series of, it's a, as you said, it's a biodiversity theme, summer school, and biodiversity is quite a broad theme, so we've pulled together a group of speakers and experts and different groups working in the area on the topic of biodiversity, so each with different expertise, and so they're all going to give different talks or workshops to kind of help people learn more about the biodiversity in the area or even just find out about kind of projects that are going on there or different ways they can get involved. So yeah, first and foremost, I suppose, an educational sort of event, but also with hopefully the idea of some networking as well can be done. I think we've a line-up of about 14, 13 or 14 different speakers, all from different groups, so really hoping to kind of get more collaboration in the area as well between these different groups from us. Because obviously that's one of the big problems for a lot of particularly smaller charities or NGOs, is that they're very often working on their own and they're not really that, you know, connected to everybody, so getting people who are in the same field as yourselves together is really a valuable way of getting, you know, progressing things. Yeah, it really is, and it's especially important just with biodiversity in terms of, we have a small, it's not a very big site in Talbrok, so it by itself isn't going to do a whole lot to kind of reverse the biodiversity loss that we have in Ireland. So it's very important that we do have events like this and that we work together with different groups and can kind of combine resources and combine ideas as well, and we've worked a lot for this event together with the other groups right from the start, so even just working closely with them, we've kind of learned more about what they're doing and they've learned more about what we're doing as well, which is something can be hard to make time for as well when you're trying to manage everything else that you're doing with a charity or a community group. Yeah, yeah. So the group, the get-together then at Kylemore, of course, it's a wonderful location for a meeting anywhere for a get-together like this. Will there be, can work indoors and outdoors as well, or how is that going to work? Yeah, so it's a mix, yeah, it's going to be kind of blended. There's going to be some workshops that are going to be outdoors on site in Kylemore, so one of them would be with Dooler, for example, doing a demo of the rhododendron removal, which is obviously a very big topic for biodiversity and conservation in the area there, but then there's the other stuff will be inside the classroom as well. Most of the talks are going to be relatively short, kind of 20 to 30 minutes, so it's going to go through a lot of topics quite quickly. It's not going to go too in-depth. It's going to be maybe an introduction for a lot of people to some of the different projects if they're not familiar with them and an opportunity then to meet the speakers as well and to learn more about maybe how they can get involved in the future. But yeah, so then it has a mixture of kind of indoor and outdoor events as well, so we're not sitting down too long. Okay, so I suppose the big thing like, I mean, you're covering a huge number of different pieces and I think that's one of the interesting things because there's really something for everybody there. How do people kind of get involved? How do they sign up for it or whatever? Yeah, so and we were kind of conscious of that when we were creating the different events and stuff, so there is maybe some events that people will be more interested than others, so we've tried to group the events together slightly based on the topics that they're based on. So, for example, the Saturday morning is very much, as I said, the rhododendron workshop there and there's stuff based on what landowners can do then to enhance the biodiversity on their land. So, and then afterwards, the Saturday afternoon is more focused on different kind of community group works that are happening in the area and kind of conservation projects, very local through Letterfrack. And so the signups can be done through Eventbrite, so you can book, you can basically book a morning slot, an afternoon slot or an evening slot. We have some kind of more arts and entertainment on in the evening, and then on the Sunday, it's the same. There's a morning and an afternoon slot, so the tickets, they're free tickets, but they can be put up to Eventbrite through our website or you can find it on the social medias as well. So people are welcome to come to all the events or to kind of pick and choose which of the sessions maybe are more relevant to the aspects that they're interested in or not. I would imagine that a lot of people would like to be there for the whole lot because it's such a wonderful selection. And of course, very often you don't realise what you're interested in until you kind of find out about it. So, you know, people might not know much about rhododendrons and the removal of it. So by, you know, turning up for something like this, you can learn so much. So people, if they want to find out the exact timetable of it, because I have it here in front of me and it's quite like 30 minutes, like, you know, very short amount of time each time. So how do people find that information? So if they go to, it's all found on any of our social medias. If they go to Greenside Ireland, either on Facebook or Instagram, or else if they go to our website, greensideireland.ie, there is our most recent blog post there has the full timetable and the links for the Eventbrite, the Eventbrite link there where you can book directly with us. So yeah, that's probably the easiest way to kind of make the bookings. And there's also a contact email on the website if there's any kind of problems with that, that people can get in touch there. Yeah, that's good. That's good. So it sounds like a really wonderful get together for people. And I suppose at this time of year, you know, the kind of end of the summer for lots of people that have a little bit more time, but hopefully, as I say, the weekend will be a good time for them as well. So it sounds like it's a fantastic time, Rory. I'd love to be able to go there myself. I'm not sure whether I would be free or not, but if I can, I certainly will. Yeah, that'd be great. And yeah, no, so we're looking forward to seeing you. And we're very happy to be included on the Connemara Radio, because we really are hoping to have a lot of people from the area that can hopefully work on some of the projects going forward at the event. So that would be great to see. OK, well, listen, I'll be reminding people a bit later on about it as well. But thank you so much, Rory, for being with us this evening. And the best of luck with that particular event. Thank you. Thank you very much. OK, bye. Thank you. Bye bye. 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But before I do, just before, so I won't forget it, yesterday evening the champions or the winners of the different classes did a round of the town of the ponies. It was really, really lovely. Not a huge crowd of people out to see them, but it's always nice to see those beautiful Connemara ponies going around the town. Well, I'd like to welcome Mary Carey, who's the spokesperson of the domestic arts section of the Connemara Pony Show, to tell us about the domestic arts section. Mary, you're welcome again here on Connemara Community Radio. Thank you very much, Brendan, and thank you to everyone in the Connemara Community Radio for all their help with the shows over the years, giving us the chance to let the people know it's coming up and to get their entry forms and to help us to keep it out there with the community. Oh, absolutely. And we had a great turnout yesterday, and a good big show, despite all, because we were very late getting the startlers' orders. And while I'm at it, I'd like to thank Ronya in the office for her help and Margaret O'Donnell and all the ladies in the Clifton ICA and Mary Keenan, and a special thank you to all the entrants, old and new, as without their input we wouldn't have any domestic arts. Absolutely. And then I'd like to thank all our judges, who are the best, and I'd like to send best wishes to Michael Jan King, who was in the UCHG until 1.30 the night before, and this is dedication to your entries in the show. And he came home and baked his cakes to get his prizes yesterday. And it is. I was so delighted that he got something because he came in in the morning. So that's dedication. So I hope Michael Jan stays healthy and happy now for many years to come. Absolutely. It takes part as well. Yeah. They're the same. Way back in 1984, it was in the Connock Tribune last week, 84 years ago, the people who were entering, and they were still from Falkirr and Erislanan and all these places. And it was strange yesterday because Carmel Ivan was there doing photographs and I was there. Both our grandfathers were highly commended in the Connock Tribune last week for their entries 84 years ago. And there we are. My father was in it in 1954 with your father who was a vet at the time. Yeah. And a lot of the local people now, Sweeney's father was there, and all the Falkirr lads in Erislanan and all the people that helped. And that time they had everything, sheep and ducks and everything. Good, good. Veg and what have you. Yeah. Butter and everything else. And Gabriel Keady's mother. For anyone that might be listening, the order who saw Cecilia Keady, she would have been Gabriel's mother. Yeah. And even Joe Keady, Gabriel's brother, was there. He was there before he went to America and became famous for being with the Kennedys. Yeah. So the show goes on and there we were yesterday. And the same, my cousin Joe McCann, there were three generations of him in the ring yesterday. And my grandfather would have been his granduncle. So that's 100 years of the show. And I'm putting that out there tonight. Now, it didn't intend to, it wasn't on my agenda, but when you had mentioned something I couldn't resist it because we're trying to hold a show in Clifton. And when you think about it, it's the same thing going. And the ICA, more importantly, in 1954, were still stewards. So we're going back, you know, years and years in that show. And it would be a pity if it ever left Clifton. And the lovely atmosphere we had yesterday. So that's that. Now back to the domestic arts. Tell us then about the domestic arts, the kind of, the winners or how it worked. Who the winners were, is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, for instance, the cups and plaques and things would be the highlight of it. And for the class 21 would usually be the six in eggs. And this year it was Susan Votman who got the cup for that. And then we had the Anna King plaque for the jam. And a lady called Elizabeth Lunsdorp got the prize for that. And she's from Germany. And then we had Mary Gibbons with the Meena Ryan cup for the coffee layer cake. And then we had Keelan Corbett with her fruit scones. And then we had the Tully Cross Credit Union with Alva Gavin. And then Casual Credit Union Cup for the sponge went to Mary Gibbons. The John Joe Brown plaque for I.C. of 68 Youthful Vegetables went to Colin Snow again this year. And then we had the Mac Walters plaque for the hand-knitted wool or cotton. And Margaret O'Donnell won that. Then we had Delia O'Toole Memorial plaque. That's for our crochet. And Mary Nookton won that. Then we had Tully Cross I.C.A. Perpetual plaque for the framed photo by an adult. And Denise North from Kildare won that. So we had the famous Tom Finneran plaque for the tomatoes. That was won by Quevena Sullivan from South Connemara. So between everyone, it was a great turnout. There's also a great number of different people taking part in it and different types of stuff. So what kind of areas do you cover in that particular domestic arts section? Well, in the domestic arts section, we have the egg and baking section. And in that area, it covers the hen eggs, duck eggs, marmalade, jam, fruit crumbles, boiled fruit cakes, apple tarts, light fruit cakes, dark fruit cakes, coffee layer cakes, six brown scones, six fruit scones, all these homemade. Carrot cake, six chocolate brownies, brown soda cake, porter cake, biscuits, six biscuits. There's classes for the children as well, and there's homemade candy. Then there's jam sponge and a Victoria sponge. And then we're into the garden produce. And in that, we have six early potatoes, early crop potatoes. And then six potatoes of any variety, five onions, homegrown from cedar seed, five stalks of rhubarb, three heads of lettuce, three heads of garden cabbage, three parsnips, three carrots, three beets, garden beets, a jar of locally produced honey. And then we have the collection of no less than six, if not more than eight species of useful vegetables. And that's the ginger brown plaque because ginger was a great band for the vegetables. Five apples, and you state the variety. One vase of wildflowers, an arrangement of wildflowers and garden escapades, an arrangement of garden flowers, and then the five tomatoes in that section. Then we're into the home crafts, Brendan. And there we have a hand-knitted woolen or cotton article. They can all start knitting and crocheting and so on now. A hand-knitted cardigan or jumper to fit a child under five years. And then we have a pair of socks or slippers. And actually, Mary Keneally, on the Galway Road, won the pair of socks or slippers, and she also won the hand-knitted cardigan for the child under five years this year. An article of crochet was won by Mary Nookton. And then we have the cushion covers. We have an article of clothing for under ten years, hand or machine sewn. We have a soft toy, and the soft toy was won by Una Cummins from Lachnacar in Galway. An article of up-on-cycle clothing, wall-hanging any medium. An article of decoupage. An unframed painting, Adults Amateur, over 16, no larger than 18 by 14. We have a framed photo taken by an adult no larger than 10 by 14 without the frame. And then we have a piece of Carrick McGrath lace, another competition for a piece of limerick lace. And then we have the unframed painting by a child under 12. And this section is quite good because we have that, and then we have an unframed painting by a child over 12, and a framed photo taken by a child under 16, and a drawing by a National School child, age A4 size. And these are very popular classes. You know, the children's ones are quite popular. A painted stone by a National School child, and a handmade article decorated with seashells. A collage by a child under 16, that's age A3 size, and a handcrafted wooden item, and a fairy door or house, any medium but no bigger than 12 inches by 12 inches. And this year, out of all of them classes, we had, like, people taking a lot of prizes, like Mary Gibbons for all her cakes, and I mentioned Denise Norton there from Kildare, and Sue Vaughan, and Danny Vaughan, and Colin Snow, Mary Keating, Ellen Gannon, Keelan Corbett, Gweeveen O'Sullivan, and Harry and Gary Brough, and Mary Keneally, as I said, and then there was Cathy Stocker. And even from Philomena, Norton who came up several days, even for picking up her brother's things. So there's people down from Cairo, so there's people who find it hard, like even to travel, she had to leave, she was telling me she had to leave Cairo at something like half six to get up to be in time to have her entries in the show. So a lot of people go to huge efforts to attend the show. And I see now, if I went back for a minute to say to you, give you a quick run for those people who won the first prize yesterday. The Hineggs, it was Suzanne Vaughan, and the Marmalade, it was Nick Scaife, and the Jam was this girl from Sweden, sorry, I said Germany earlier, but she's actually from Sweden, Elizabeth, and then we had the Fruit Crumble, which was Ellen Gannon, My Yard, and then we had Mary Keaton with the boiled fruitcake, we had Mary Gibbons with the apple tart, and we had Mary Gibbons with the light fruitcake, and the dark fruitcake, Mary had three firsts there in a row, and then we had the cutlery layer cake, she had won that as well, that's four in a row. And then, it's amazing because you know, the judges are, you know, they're years judging, but they're so precise, if something comes in, you'd be surprised how excellent they all are. And I couldn't thank them enough over there, because these people are elderly, and they're coming sometimes at a long distance to get to the show in the morning and everything. So, then we had Michael John King with his six brown scones, homemade from Aristana, and then we had Keelan Corbett from Kiltoggan and County Gallery with six fruit scones, then we had the carrot cake, which Eileen O'Sullivan and Arbier won, and then we had Keelan Corbett again from Kiltoggan with the six chocolate brownies, then we had our brown soda cake made by Ellen Gannon, she got first for that, and then Ellen came second again with her porter cake, homemade. Then we were on to the biscuits and cookies, and Alva Gavin came first in that, and Mary Keating came first in the homemade candy. We had Mary Gibbons again with the jam sponge cake, and we had Mary Gibbons again with her Victoria sponge cake. And in the six early cropped potatoes, we had Danny Vaughan from Thal, and then we had Danny again with his six potatoes, any variety. And then we had Cuivino O'Sullivan from La Paneera in Kilkerton with the five onions, and we had Suzanne Vaughan with her five stalks of rhubarb, and we had Gary Brough with the lettuce, and then we had Colin Snow, Colin P. Snow with his primary slanum, his parsnips, and then we had Danny Vaughan again with his carrots, and we had Danny with his three garden beets, and then we had Colin Snow with the jar of locally produced honey. We had Colin Snow with the collection of no less than six, and not more than eight, species of useful vegetables. We had Suzanne Vaughan with her five apples. We had... There was no first in that. The arrangement of wildflowers and garden escapades was St. Anne's Residence, Westport Road. St. Anne's are great, and all the help they get there, and a shout-out to Anne King for all she does for them up there. And then we have the arrangement of garden flowers. Suzanne Vaughan won first there. And in the tomatoes, we had Creevino O'Sullivan, again from La Paneera with the tomatoes. We had Margaret O'Donoghue in the hand-knitted woolen or cotton article. We had Mary Keneally, as I said earlier, on the Galway Road for the hand-knitted cardigan or jumper. Then we had Mary again with a pair of socks or slippers, hand-made. Some beautiful knitwear and crochet and everything there yesterday. Then we had Mary Nookton, my yard, with her article of crochet. And we had Catherine Stocker from Cooley Clyde Clifton with her cushion cover of Fanny Median. And then we had Cathy again with the article of clothing for under ten years and made her a machine sewn. Then we had Oona Comyns from Racknacarda with the soft toy. We had Catherine Stocker from Cooley Clyde with the article of upcycled clothing. We had Catherine Stocker with the wall-hanging Annie Median. Then we had Mary Keating with the article of decoupage. We had Denise Norton from Kilcullen in County Kildare with the unframed painting by an adult. We had Denise Norton again with the framed photo taken by an adult. And then we had, let me see, Cuillin O'Regan from Anishinaa Roundstone with the unframed painting by a child under 12. Then we had the drawing by a National School child, A4 size, was won by Ari Brow by the House by the Waterfall Clifton. And then the painted stone by a National School child was won by Ruth Abraham No. 6, the Racecourse Lawns. And then we had the handmade decorated article with seashells, which I think I remember was in that lovely lab. St. Anne's Residence, Westport Road again, so they all helped doing that. And the collage by a child under 16 went to Isabella Matz from Knocknahaugh My Art. And then we had Cuillin Corbett from Kilcullen again with a handcrafted wooden item. Then we had the fairy door Annie Median, Ruth Abraham that won first in that. So that's a breakdown of the cups and the classes and all the people, as I just say, helped. Well, that sounds fantastic, Mary. It's really great to see that it continues on. So look, unfortunately we're running out of time, so I'd just like to say thanks for coming on and talking to us. Yeah, and there's just one last thing, if I could have it, to say that, you know, please God, next year the show will be, you know, in time, that they'll know what they're doing in time and that the forums will be out. You see, what happens, one little important thing is when the forums go out, they go out usually the beginning of June and they have to be back the middle of July, the forums telling me what you're doing, because they have to go to print to get the books and all this. So people think that they could come on show day, you know, or the week before show. They have to be done a month before. So if they put it in their head, if they get the forum in June, they have to have it back beginning of July and the show isn't till August, you know. So then are the deadlines. So the middle of July is, well, the second week in July, usually we have to have them back. Okay, well, Mary, we'll be talking to you again when the forums come out and we'll have a great present at that stage. But thank you for... Thank you and thank Community Radio for giving me the opportunity. Thanks, Mary. All the best. Bye. Bye-bye. That's Mary Carey there, a spokesperson of the Domestic Arts Section, kind of our pony show, with all the results there. So I hope you enjoyed that. Now we're going to take another piece of music and, again, I'm going to dedicate these to Niall and Tony and Brian and Valerie and we're going to listen to a lovely track here from Kate Purcell and the one we're going to go with is... I'm not sure which one we're going to go with. 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Contact 091-574-858 Right, welcome back to the program. And I was mentioning that we were going to talk about a wonderful concert which will be coming up in Clifton on the 31st of August. We're getting the Clifton Arts Festival off to a great start a little bit early, but that's OK. And we have a wonderful musician coming together to perform and that would be Donal Murphy accordion, David Ducey on fiddle and mic, Galvin on vocals and guitar, and they make up the Breaking Trad. And to find out more about the group and the concert, I'm delighted to welcome Donal Murphy to the program. Donal here, welcome to us here on Connemara Community Radio. Delighted to be tuning in, Grondon. Absolutely great, yeah. Sure, yeah, we're looking forward to this tour. We've been talking about getting the second album out for a number of years now and eventually we got into the studio there earlier in the year and got the tracks down and got them mixed and mastered and then we said we'd pencil in a tour from kind of the end of August right through September, October time, you know. Pretty much the first gig near enough of the tour is going to be in Clifton on Saturday the 31st of August and we're really looking forward to it. Great. Now tell me a bit about Breaking Trad, the group itself. Where did you all come from or how did you get together? Well, I live in Abbeyfield in County Limerick, which is on the Limerick-Kerry border. Our guitar player, Mike Galvin, who's been a musical colleague of mine for a long, long time. Mike lives in Killarney, which is half an hour away from me, so we would do quite a lot the two as a duo over the years in Killarney. And David Doostie comes from up the west of Ireland, you probably know him up that country. Mighty, mighty fiddle player altogether. David's from Poxford in County Mayo. We just met, I suppose, we met at festivals, Milltown, Maladay over the years, you know, the All-Ireland Flag, loads and loads and loads of festivals. So, you know, you'd know people and you'd get into sessions with people and we just... David joined the band only in the last maybe two or three years. The initial fiddle player was a guy called Niall Murphy. He's up from County Armagh. And he left the band a few years ago. He got the call from Nathan Carter to travel around the world and wherever with that band, so it was just proven too difficult. But David had depped in a good few times and we were delighted there about two, two and a half years ago that he'd get on board. So, yeah, we just met at festivals and whatever and there was a click between us. And there's a whole pile of tunes on there, real jigs, slides, polkas, that's where we're kind of rooted for down this neck of the woods. And then Mike plays guitar, as I say, and he also sings. He's a gorgeous singer, really, really unusual style. And people do rave about his voice and his songs. So that's ultimately it. It's just a three-piece band, but it's a big enough sounding band. Mike was with Frankie Gavin, Galway's Finest, with Dajanin for a number of years. And basically he left the band a number of years ago and then we formed, straight out of that we formed this Breaking Tread band. It's going great round on. We're really, really happy with how things have gone. We've done a lot of touring, particularly in the States now. There's a lot of interest in Breaking Tread in the States. We've been there a good few times and played a lot of major festivals. So, yeah, it's good to be back home again touring Ireland. Yeah. Now, of course, your area, as you say there, Limerick, not too far from the Kerry border, the Slieve Lucra area, of course, would be very famous. Is there a special style, though, for Limerick? I think I hear about Limerick Fiddlers and things like that. Is there a special kind of style in that area, or do you follow more of the Kerry style? Well, you know, there is. I've often had this discussion with, because, you know, you'd be playing quite a lot of music with Slieve Lucra Fiddler players and musicians in general, and also the West Limerick gang. They're similar, but just the notation and the phrasing. I think the phrasing is the big one. It's a little bit different. Yes, it would come under a very similar type Slieve Lucra vein, I guess. But, you know, when you listen to it, I think with West Limerick styles, there is a noticeable difference. It's probably maybe not as quick as you'd get around the Slieve Lucra, like Johnny Leary and Jimmy Doyle and them players from the heart of the Slieve Lucra area. A lot of their music was played in polkas for dancing, you know, and it would have been pretty lively, you know, that dancers would be dancing off the floor in Skaftaginn and Valydezm at the Nocknagry, where we do play quite lightly, but I would say that they'd be going at it a bit faster, I would say. But look, it's similar, it is quite similar, and the types of tunes are quite similar. There might be a similar tune that's played back around the Killarney, Slieve Lucra area, Skaftaginn areas, and it might be played in Arda, Newcastle West, Killevy, and even if it would be the same tune, you'd know by listening to it that the phrasing is slightly different. Yeah, and of course your own instruments, the accordion, you've done a button accordion, melodied all of those, and you've been winning with that. How did that come about for you? Where did the music start with you? Well, my dad, Dan Murphy, God be good to him, was a great box player. He came from Nocknagoshill, just again, on the borders between Kerry and Limerick, just off the borders between Kerry, and he played the accordion, and basically I grew up listening to him and just loved the sight of it, the look of it, the sound of it. So, you know, I was probably destined to take that. I started with the pinwhistle, as most people did, but I branched into the accordions fairly early on, probably around nine or ten years of age. And then my mum, from my mum's side, my mum was an Irish dancing teacher all through her life, you know, so she had a massive draw for the cue as well. So, you know, from a young age, and also I was reared in a bar, an Irish music pub in Abbeyfield, the Falter Bar, as it was known then. It's DJ Murphy's now, my brother runs it. But there was traditional music sessions two nights a week with really good local musicians, Donald O'Bara, John Brosnan, Paddy Clancy. And then once a month there was a special guest used to be brought in, like we had Sean Kane, Dolores Kane, there was Marcin O'Connor, there was Frankie Gavin, there was Jackie Daly, Kevin Burke. I mean, the list was endless. So, you know, under our own roof where we were living, all these special guests came as well. So with my father's draw for the busking show, there was always plenty of box players brought along. So, you know, you heard all the different sides. Joe Burke, of course, like he was a legend in the box playing world, but he also played probably more than anybody else in the Falter Bar back in the day. So I was brought up with it, really, it was in the house and it was unavoidable, really, in the DNA. Absolutely. Well, look, if we look forward to hearing you on the 34th, I know now you're off to do some music tonight, so we won't delay you. Yeah, ironically enough, there's a concert in Murphy's Bar this evening. It's Gerard Donald and Trevor Sexton, they're a great duo, two vocals, Gerard's from County Clare and Trevor Sexton from County Limerick. But they've asked me to do a recording on a couple of the songs, but I think they're going to kick off the concert around now with a few songs, first of all, and I'll probably do a few things with them later on. Yeah, look, it's on in the Clifton, it's the Station House Theatre in Clifton, and it's been ran in conjunction with Brendan Flynn and the committee there with the Clifton Arts Society. They're a great bunch. I rang Brendan a number of months ago to see what was the possibility of us performing at the Clifton Arts Festival, and as it turned out at that time, pretty much all the gigs were full and all their dates were full, but they spoke among their Clifton Arts Society bunch anyway, and Brendan rang me up and said, look, you know, we'd love to have you, maybe, as a kind of a prelude to the festival. So they penciled in to Saturday the 31st, and look, we're looking forward to it. It's early enough, it's 8 o'clock, start with doors at 7.30, and it's tickets on the door on the night. Absolutely, absolutely. Don't worry, I know all about it, I'm involved in all that stuff, I'll be there. I'll be there on the night. But it's great, I'm looking forward to it, and we let you get off and do a bit of your music there, but we have a few tracks lined up from your album, so we'll save those now for people as well. Thank you very much, and have a good night. Thank you very much, and have a good night. Good night. Good night. The Station House Theatre on Saturday the 31st, which is only next week, and as I say, it should be an amazing concert, and we will listen to a couple of pieces here from the group. I think the first one is a selection of pieces, there's all sorts of bits thrown in together here, but we'll have a listen to this, and then we might get a second one in before the end of the programme as well. THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE THE STATION HOUSE THEATRE Right, that's Breaking Trad there, that's Norman Murphy, David Lucey and Mike Galvin, and as I say, wonderful stuff there, that was a selection of jigs, reels, slides, polkas, God knows what else was in it, there was a whole load of stuff. That's the group, as I say, Breaking Trad, playing in Clifton on Saturday the 31st of August at the Station House Theatre at 8 o'clock, and I know there'll be a lot of interest in that particular one, so fair play to them, or to Donal for being with us. As I say, he was in a bit of a rush because he is performing tonight on his own stage there, but anyway, as I say, that was really good. So we're actually going to take a second track from them, and we're going to listen to a track called King of the Pipes, and this features again Breaking Trad, and that will then bring us up to our end of this part of the programme and over to our classical music, so we're just going to take this particular track. CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC Well, as I say, that's fantastic, Breaking Trad there, as I say, Donal Murphy on the accordion, David Ducey on the fiddle and Mike Galvin, vocals and guitar, and that track, King of the Pipes, and as I say, they'll be in Clifton on the Station House on the 31st at 8 o'clock. And I'd just like to thank everybody who took part in our programme today, Rory McKenna, Communications Administrator with Greenside Ireland, talking about that event that's taking place in Northampton University in Kylemoor on Saturday the 31st and Sunday the 31st, and Mary Carey talking to us about the Domestic Arts section of Conamara Pony Show, Elaine Houlihan from Workton Affirma talking about that Make the Move, if you're going to makethemove.ie and get all the information there, Emma Dine from the Utrecht Art Agricultural Show and their show taking place on Sunday the 25th of August, hopefully it'll all go well for them, and then Donald Murphy talking to us about Breaking Trad. I'd like to thank everybody who took part in preparing the programme and also to Anne and to Jean-Pierre for looking after things here. I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Bye for now. Contact 091 574 858.