Link to the Show / Show NotesMichael Lyons Producer DVD - "Old Ireland"
If I were to take the easy option to encapsulate the essence of the 'Old Ireland' DVDs (Part 1 & 2) I would be tempted to simply quote from the opening narration, the famous Joseph Campbell poem, 'I Will Go With My Father':
"I will go with my father a ploughing
To the green fields by the sea
And the rooks and the crows and the seagulls
Will come flocking after me." Etc, etc.
However, that would be far too easy and the danger would be that 'Old Ireland' might be at a distance or somehow removed from our psyche. Yet, however hard some may try to blot out the hardships of rural life of the 1940's and '50s, our early experiences are part of what we are and what we pass on to future generations. On the other hand, the romantics among us see rural Ireland of that period through rose tinted glasses, and, I suppose, somewhere in between lies the real 'Old Ireland'.
Pat Troy from Kilcomac, Co. Offaly operates Ireland's Own Pub in Alexandria, VA. He has been broadcasting on - WUST - AM 1120 in the DC area for 35 years.
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