Today, August 4th 2021 is the anniversary of the death of the great and still oft quoted Con Houlihan – December 6th 1925 – August 4th 2012) The shy and gentle giant of stature and of his chosen profession lived long enough to see at first hand what he meant to all on hill and…
For the first Sunday morning in about a century and a half I missed Sunday Miscellany. My grandson and I were flying a €10 glider in ideal wind conditions over lawns and meadows around Keel – at the other side and at the base of Sliabh Mish. I heard and read Dermot Bolger’s tribute to…
While there was never a fear that it wouldn’t eventually get out there, an online tribute to the great Con Houlihan was ambushed on its first attempt by the kind of gremlins he so often mentioned in his back page or Tributaries columns in the Evening Press. The tribute was mounted by way of an…
I didn’t want to let the day go without remembering Patrick O’Keeffe (1887 – 1963) who went to his eternal reward on this day 53 years ago. Patrick is widely credited with being the catalyst behind the survival and ultimate popularity of the music throughout his area. A gang of us headed off to Kilmurry…
