Monday, September 07, 2009
Cool cake art
For bonus points, the music for the first three minutes is played by Curfa, made up of a bunch of my close friends down here in South Florida.
Labels: fun, Ireland, Music, personal
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
I love "An Phis Fliuch" in this vid.
The slip jig by the same name isn't bad either.
Splash, out
Jason
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: fiddle blogging, Ireland, Music
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Who's gonna shut me up?
Obama, Chicago machine thug that he is, doesn't want the opposition to be doing a lot of talking.
Yeah, he want us to shut up.
Here's my response:
Tiochfaidh ar la!!!!
Jason
Yeah, he want us to shut up.
Here's my response:
Tiochfaidh ar la!!!!
Jason
Labels: culture, health care, Ireland, Obama
Friday, July 03, 2009
What if...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Christ is Risen!!!!
I'm off to play music.
Easter thoughts from the Anchoress.
And my favorite Easter song:
Easter thoughts from the Anchoress.
And my favorite Easter song:
Labels: Catholicism, Chieftains, Christianity, Easter, Ireland
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
My YouTube Debut!
I'm the dork in the foreground with the pizza shirt and the fiddle.
That's Eamonn Dillon on the low whistle, and John Schreiber on guitar in the back there.
The first tunes is Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, which I learned from the playing of Kevin Glackin, here played in Gm instead of the traditional Dm. The second tune is Over the Moor to Maggie, here played in Bb rather than in G, to accommodate Eamonn's whistle.
Splash, out
Jason
That's Eamonn Dillon on the low whistle, and John Schreiber on guitar in the back there.
The first tunes is Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, which I learned from the playing of Kevin Glackin, here played in Gm instead of the traditional Dm. The second tune is Over the Moor to Maggie, here played in Bb rather than in G, to accommodate Eamonn's whistle.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: bloggers, fiddle blogging, friends, Ireland, Music, personal
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Wearing of the Green
In observation of St. Patrick, a brief military history of Cromwell's brutal quelling of the Catholic uprising in 1649.
We wear green in a spirit of revelry now. And we take the shamrock lightly. But there was a time and place where simply wearing a shamrock was a deadly serious act of political defiance, which could get you tortured and hanged.
Pleist amach,
Jason
The (Catholic) Confederates faced a disadvantage that negated the town's impressive fortifications, however: there was a traitor in their midst, Captain James Stafford. Had Stafford's treason not occurred, Wexford would no doubt have been a tougher nut to crack. On October 11, Stafford gave Cromwell entrance to the town. The scenes that followed mirrored those at Drogheda. Many Franciscans and other priests were killed. Three hundred women were massacred while standing at the cross in the public square. They had hoped that being near the cross would soften the hearts of the Christian soldiers. Instead it identified them as Catholics, and they were put to death. The churches were then destroyed. The total number of dead at Wexford was about 2,000.
We wear green in a spirit of revelry now. And we take the shamrock lightly. But there was a time and place where simply wearing a shamrock was a deadly serious act of political defiance, which could get you tortured and hanged.
Pleist amach,
Jason
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Tiochfaidh Allah!!!
Am I the only one who noticed that Al Qaeda's number 2 cretin is named Eamonn O'Seawargharaigh?
Tulga mach,
Jason
Tulga mach,
Jason
Labels: Humor, Ireland, moojies, terrorism
