Jackie Daly & SÉAMUS CREAGH

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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.

 

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