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Beirt
de na ceoltóirí is cumasaí sa tír, Jackie Daly agus
Shamus Creagh, atá ar an gceirnín seo. I gCorcaigh atá
cónaí orthu agus is i Sliabh Luachra agus I Múscraí a
bhailíodar chucu a lán dá gcuid ceoil. Níl amhras ach
gur gliondar a chuirfeadh a gcuid seanma ar Phádraig Ó
Caoimh agus ar Denis Murphy, dá mairfidis.
One of the
greatest musical traditions in Ireland is that which
belongs to the 200 square miles in East Kerry and North
East Cork - situated roughly between the four towns of
Kanturk, Castleisland, Killarney and Millstreet and
known as Sliabh Luachra - the home of some of the finest
traditional music we are ever likely to hear.
The music of
Sliabh Luachra has a number of unique features: its
lively rhythm and the lovely warm style in which it is
played; the dance tunes known as slides and polkas,
which are found in no other part of the country and the
many good musicians who played them down the years. One
of the most famous of these was the late Pádraig
O'Keeffe - 'The last of the fiddle masters' - a school
teacher from Glountane, Cordal, near Castleisland, who
died on 22nd
February 1963 and
whose legendary playing was a very strong influence on
his fellow musicians and on the music of the region
where he lived.
Cúis áthais dúinn
go bhfuil ceol Shliabh Luachra beo, folláin inniu. Tá a
fhianaise sin sa cheirnín seo ar a bhfuil sleamhnáin,
polcanna, cornphíopaí, poirt, ríleanna, foinn mhalla
agus amhráin. Caithfidh go bhfuil Jackie Daly (bosca)
agus Séamus Creagh (fidil) ar an mbeirt cheoltóir is
fearr dá bhfuil ag gabháil don cheol beirte i láthair na
huaire. |