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| "Traditional Musicians"
This card is not dated and is obviously well past the time the Walsh/Langan ancestors left Ireland. It is, however, the only thing I have found so far to represent traditional music which was and is a very important part of Irish life. | |
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"The ould Irish jig" Post marked 1903 |
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"The Irish Jig- Leading of Double"
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"The Irish Piper"
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| Print from Tales of Irish Life and Character with Pictures by Erskine Nicol First Edition. Book collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
| A Card Party | |
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| Print from Tales of Irish Life and Character with Pictures by Erskine Nicol First Edition. Book collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
| Irish Merrymaking | |
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| The Graphic, April 28, 1888. Print collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
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Maggie Land Blanck Irish Colleens-Fortune Telling | |
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Harpers Weekly Feburay 12, 1870 NEW YEAR'S EVE IN IRELAND | |
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Illustrated London News, March 19, 1853 DROWNING THE SHAMROCK ON ST. PATRICK'S NIGHT | |
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Print collection of Maggie Land Blanck Illustrated London News, November 6, 1858 Accompanying text "All Hallow Eve (1st of November) being between All Souls and All Saints Day is the night of all others on which the Irish peasantry believe that ghosts, witches, and fairies, but especially the redoubtable phoca, are so industrious in playing pranks on unwary travelers, and that supernatural events narrated by such adventurers form themes for gossip and many a cottage fireside for many a long night afterwards. It is, therefore, not surprising that this evening should be spent in a more festive manner than any other by this imaginative people, as from its associations, it had lost none of its pristine interest, whilst most other national customs seem gradually to have vanished from amongst the. On All Hallow Eve a number of the younger peasantry from the adjacent neighborhoods assemble at the house of some old farmer who in his youth had been the gay leader of every merrymaking throughout the country, and still took delight in seeing others enjoy the sports he was no longer capable of partaking. A collection being made, the merry party are soon supplied with plenty of eatables and the indispensable mountain dew in profusion, for the occasion; the scaltheen or cross sticks, being then suspended from the roof and decorated with apples and lighted candles placed alternately on its points, and, being kept twirling round, invited many a candidate to complete for the ruddy prize, but singed hair or eyelashes, together with the pleasure of being laughed at, is often the reward of this exertions. As a cooler to this amusement, diving for money in a tub of water is next resorted to, and many a fair mountain nymph forsakes her native element for a while and bears from beneath the pellucid water the shining silver between her teeth, which rival it in whiteness. Burning nuts, fortune telling, and stories are next engaged in all of which are wound up with a dance, until the time arrives (one o'clock) when the enchantment of the night is broken, and all may return, unmolested by fay or phoca, to their respective homes. | |
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The Graphic October 4, 1884 Text is missing.
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The Dancing Master painted by H. Helmick from The Magazine of Art, date unknown Howard Helmick (American 1845-1907) was born in Zaneville, Ohio and studied in Paris. In 1876 he moved to Galway, Ireland where he painted many scenes of Irish life. He returned to America in 1888. | |
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