sligo for all-ireland? - Comhaltas Archive

SAN DIEGO PROFESSOR LOVES IRELANDDr. Ed. Henry of the Department ofAnthropology, College of Arts andLetters at San Diego State Universityhas fallen in love with Ireland and hermusic. He recently completed a thesison Comhaltas Ceolt6ir{ Eireann andwrote an excellent article - which waspublished in TREOIR - on the Sligofiddle player Joe O'Dowd.While in Ireland on his last visit, Dr.Henry recorded on camera some musical"faces" of the country and we arepleased to publish three of them here.The young fiddle player is Pat Flood;the older solo fiddler is Sean Moloney;and the fiddle duet are, as yet, "ganainm" .ARMYTROPHYONTARGETThe first shots of a closer musicalalliance between Comhaltas and theIrish Army were fired recently whenofficers and men of Kildare Barracksmade and presented a beautiful trophyto Comhaltas. The trophy is made froma hand polished shell superimposed withthe Comhaltas symbol and mounted ona wooden base . The new trophy is righton target with the aim of the ArdchiraitheoirSeamus MacArnhlaoibh who isrequisitioning some extra trophies tobridge the gap in the present arsenal oftrophies available for national competition.Seamus would be pleased to hearfrom other volunteers who might like todonate a trophy.• Our picture shows the Army representativespresenting the trophy to Uachtaranan Chomhaltais Miche3I Cl Lochlainnand also included are Kildare Com-LIVERPOOL'S MUSICALWEDDINGJulie Nicholas of the Liverpool ComhaltasBranch playing a tune on 'herwedding day when she married SteveHodgeson. Julie is an All-Ireland, champion having won the senior SlowAir on the Concert Flute in 1985 . Bothshe and her sister Margaret are longstandingmembers of Comhaltas: Margaret,who was bridesmaid, is an All-Irelandwinner on the tin whistle , has alsogained her Teacher's Diploma and isSecretary of the Liverpool Branch.It was one of the great musical weddingsof the year with The WeddingCell{ Band providing the music ably assistedby members of the LiverpoolCelli Band and many of the youngermusicians. Julie and Steve ended theirHoneymoon by coming to the All-Brithaltaspersonalities Denis Gilroy, Nora' Grogan, Sean Grogan and Seamus25A tune on Julie's wedding dayain Fleadh Cheoll in Hariunersmith,London. We wish the happy coupleevery health and happiness for manyyears to come.MacAmhlaoibh.EILEEN O'BRIENP.R.O. Liverpool CCE