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In my dreams, I've cybered myself over to my beloved Donegal, Ireland to say hello to all of my FG friends here...Come and join me for a cuppa by the fireside...:wah: make believe it's winter...



Everyone up for a waltz now.....I've given directions below...Ducky and I will show you how to waltz...



Get up gents and ask the ladies to dance.....



I've put my blue dress on for this dance...Who's up for waltzing with me...







YouTube - Homes Of Donegal-Irish Song





The Homes Of Donegal (Sean Mc Bride/ arranged Paul Brady)



I've just dropped in to see you all

I'll only stay awhile

I want to hear how you're getting on

I want to hear you smile

I'm happy to be back again

And greet you big and small

For there's no place on earth just like

The homes of Donegal

I long to see your smiling children

Standing by the door

The kettle boiling on the hearth

As I walk up the floor

And then to see a welcome free

For travellers one and all

For your hearts are like your mountains

In the homes of Donegal

I'd like to stay along with you

And while away the night

With fairy lore and tales of yore

Beside the turf fire bright

And then to see laid out for me

A shake-down by the wall

For there's rest for weary wanderers

In the homes of Donegal

The time has come for me to go

And bid you all adieu

For the open highway calls me back

To do these things I do

But when I'm travelling far away

Your friendship I'll recall

And please God I'll soon return unto

The homes of Donegal





How to do a Donegal Waltz..."The Marino Waltz"



Are ya ready to waltz...Here's Ducky and I doing a line dance waltz..... Everyone up now......





YouTube - Marino Waltz - Irish Waltz Line Dance by The Girls

Here's John Sheehan of the Dubliners playing the "Marino Waltz". He is a lovely man...

I'll play the flute, a lovely Celtic melody or two......

chonsigirl;1215639 wrote: I'll play the flute, a lovely Celtic melody or two......


Ahhh, Chonsi...I'd love to see you playing with the Dubliners...John Sheehan once said that I had the most beautiful legs in the audience:wah:

Oh, I lubs him....

We can sit outside on this lovely summer night, under an Irish sky and listen to the music.

chonsigirl;1215642 wrote: We can sit outside on this lovely summer night, under an Irish sky and listen to the music.




I'm here with you sweet Chonsi...It is indeed a beautiful night and all is beautiful at the beach...Right now, I'm listening to the song "The Hills of Donegal" and waiting for someone to ask me to waltz....



****tapping foot***** ~~mega sigh~~

I'm here and would love to do the waltz with you...I'd ask John, but he went to bed:wah: Gawd, I miss it so much...someday in my old age I will move there for good and take Donegal or Kerry...it's a toss up.:wah:

Found the music for the Marino Waltz

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1659

I'd forgotten the tune, though a fiddler friend wrote it out for me some years ago. I'll join the musos in the corner...

Thanks for the invitation. Lovely place.

I found two paintings of Donegal and a video:



BEAUTIFUL DONEGAL Video by diamond - MySpace Video



I think I shall stay a little while with you all.

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along-for-the-ride;1215805 wrote: Thanks for the invitation. Lovely place.



I found two paintings of Donegal and a video:





BEAUTIFUL DONEGAL Video by diamond - MySpace Video





I think I shall stay a little while with you all.


How are you Along....:-6



That wee cottage on the left could be my Auntie Ellen's cottage in Meenacross, Donegal:-4....spent lovely summers there.

BBC - Celtic Connections 2009

Gosh I wish I could go to Donegal. Instead, I have to hit the road here. I think it's called doing a runner. Sigh. Family stuff. Kathy - I'll be around tomorrow, I have a lot of stuff to fix quickly and it's all suddenly, but then I have to go under the radar for at least a fortnight. So if we don't catch up before then, I'll hope to catch up in a bit. :-4

YouTube - Irish Celtic Music The Bothy Band 1977 The Laurel Tree

YouTube - Capercaillie

I'm a big fan of both Capercaillie and even more, the Bothy Band!!! WOW!!! Kicking up my heels already. Thanks GMC.

Kathy, when you cyber yourself over there, do you do the thingy where you can actually stroll down the streets? My daughter just taught me that trick, so I can go up streets from my childhood, then move on to Pittsburgh, etc. It's fun!

Zapata;1217821 wrote: Kathy, when you cyber yourself over there, do you do the thingy where you can actually stroll down the streets? My daughter just taught me that trick, so I can go up streets from my childhood, then move on to Pittsburgh, etc. It's fun!


Dunno what I'd do without the TARDIS I liberated from that rather silly, new age sensitive latest version of timelordery, Zapata. Time and space travel. Neat!!! Wanna ride?

Yes! Lovely! Where are we going and what do I need to do?

Hey Zap and Pam,



Have you ever gone on google maps to find your homes? I was born in an inner city that was absolutely gorgeous growing up there. Unfortunately, it's gotten very dangerous and difficult to visit there.



But this will always be where my memories are. In fact, when I dream, they're always in my childhood home.



If you haven't been to this site, you can key in your address, and it will bring you to an interactive site that lets you move along all the streets by moving your curser.



It was so cool to see my old home. It still looks beautiful. I "walked" up and down my street.....and visited the pool, ice skating rink, shops, my grammar school and church, my high school and college and friend's homes.



I also found my brother's home and saw his car in the driveway.



I can't really see my home at the beach since it's only an ariel view, but I did see my car in the driveway.



I know that many people don't like this new technology, but I love it because I can visit my old haunts and my favorite places in Florida and South Carolina.



Just go to google.com... then google maps.....key in your address, and click on your street. You can use your curser to "walk" along your city streets.



Pam, I also found your street in C. but I didn't knock on any doors;) Think I also found Ducky's home....

Yes! That's the one I meant. I get it by going to Google maps. I can't get my present home because it's not in an incorporated area. But it is so much fun to see childhood homes, those of friends, etc..

Zapata;1218088 wrote: Yes! That's the one I meant. I get it by going to Google maps. I can't get my present home because it's not in an incorporated area. But it is so much fun to see childhood homes, those of friends, etc..


I forgot to mention that it can be very dangerous to cyber something over to another place. I cybered some of my delicious, homemade bread, to OpenMind, and it nearly hit him in the head....It landed in his backyard like a speeding bullet:yh_rotfl

Kathy Ellen;1218093 wrote: I forgot to mention that it can be very dangerous to cyber something over to another place. I cybered some of my delicious, homemade bread, to OpenMind, and it nearly hit him in the head....It landed in his backyard like a speeding bullet:yh_rotfl


:yh_rotfl

Sounds like something that happened when I sent (teleported actually) that fruitcake . . .oh, no, it was a fruitcake that I sent it to.

Zapata;1218098 wrote: :yh_rotfl



Sounds like something that happened when I sent (teleported actually) that fruitcake . . .oh, no, it was a fruitcake that I sent it to.


:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Fruitcakes of any kind are dangerous...I have one living next to me:wah:

Grin. Yes, the Canberra one had my car parked outside, I remember. Where I am now is also on Google street search, and some scary views. This is yet another reason why I don't care that much about having an ID card. Already, our privacy is totally down les chiottes... grin. I'm off to Manly... sunny Sunday on ze beach... ahhhhhhh Much needed.

A beautiful song about Donegal....."Mary from Dungloe"



YouTube - Emmet Spiceland - Mary From Dungloe

here you go Kathy:

YouTube - Donegal

mikeinie;1225473 wrote: here you go Kathy:



YouTube - Donegal


Oh Mike,



I'm so sorry...I just saw your post...guess I haven't been in this thread since August.



Thank you so much for posting this youtube. It was lovely.



Have you ever been to Donegal. It really is like the back of beyond in this beautiful county.



You know what's funny. I know of no one in my area who has visited Donegal. Tourists usually visit Dublin, Killarney, Cork and Galway.



The town next to me has become a sister city to the town that my Mom's family is from...The town that I visit all the time....Of all places for them to pick:wah: unbelievable...:-2

Kathy Ellen;1240961 wrote: Oh Mike,



I'm so sorry...I just saw your post...guess I haven't been in this thread since August.



Thank you so much for posting this youtube. It was lovely.



Have you ever been to Donegal. It really is like the back of beyond in this beautiful county.



You know what's funny. I know of no one in my area who has visited Donegal. Tourists usually visit Dublin, Killarney, Cork and Galway.



The town next to me has become a sister city to the town that my Mom's family is from...The town that I visit all the time....Of all places for them to pick:wah: unbelievable...:-2 My father was Irish... this Is what he'd sing to us as kids.

YouTube - If You're Irish (Come Into the Parlour) - Ruby Murray

oooooooo the memories.

oscar;1241026 wrote: My father was Irish... this Is what he'd sing to us as kids.



YouTube - If You're Irish (Come Into the Parlour) - Ruby Murray



oooooooo the memories.


In what town/county did he live Oscar?

oscar;1241026 wrote: My father was Irish...




YouTube - Edd, CRAP

Nomad;1241033 wrote: YouTube - Edd, CRAP :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Kathy Ellen;1241032 wrote: In what town/county did he live Oscar?
Cork City... County Cork.

CORK, CITY IRELAND: Tourism Guide

:-6:-6:-6

oscar;1241044 wrote: Cork City... County Cork.



CORK, CITY IRELAND: Tourism Guide



:-6:-6:-6


Lovely Oscar,



I really don't know Cork that well, but my cousin Liz who lives in Killarney travels to Cork all the time to destress. She loves, loves, loves Cork.



I spend most of my time in Donegal, Killarney, Spanish Point in Clare and the Dublin area...these are areas where my family live.

This is the 1st Gaelic song that my Auntie Ellen taught me. I believe that school children learn this song when they study Irish.



Báidín Fheilimí - Traditional Irish Song



YouTube - BáidÃ*n FheilimÃ* - Traditional Irish Song

Sweet Gweedore....home of my rellys and where my Dad live from age 2 yrs. to 19 yrs. when he returned to the USA.



YouTube - Gweedore - Gaoth Dobhair

I didn't know that song, Kathy!!!!! Very pretty.

Here's my favourite boating song, in a beautiful atmospheric version. Have a wonderful day!!!!

Óró mo Bháidín

YouTube - Óró Mo Bháidín

Whoever pulled this thread up today must have been reading my mind this morning...was thinking of Ireland just this morning.

I keep thinking you're still in Ireland, Ducky.. I think it's the flag. You're in PA right now????

AussiePam;1244508 wrote: I keep thinking you're still in Ireland, Ducky.. I think it's the flag. You're in PA right now????


Yes, we are in the states...kept the flag up...after 3 months someboody finally notices my flag :wah:

Sure and I'm all for the Irish flag.. Eireann go brach! And all that.

AussiePam;1244534 wrote: Sure and I'm all for the Irish flag.. Eireann go brach! And all that.


:wah:

Kathy Ellen;1240961 wrote: Oh Mike,



I'm so sorry...I just saw your post...guess I haven't been in this thread since August.



Thank you so much for posting this youtube. It was lovely.



Have you ever been to Donegal. It really is like the back of beyond in this beautiful county.



You know what's funny. I know of no one in my area who has visited Donegal. Tourists usually visit Dublin, Killarney, Cork and Galway.



The town next to me has become a sister city to the town that my Mom's family is from...The town that I visit all the time....Of all places for them to pick:wah: unbelievable...:-2


Oh yes Kate, Donegal is my wife’s favourite county. We have holidayed in Bundoran, and although it is not my favourite town there, it is the gateway to the drive up the hills through Glencolumkille which is absolutely breathe taking. Then on the North side of the county a friend has a holiday home up around Downings where I have been a few times. The drive up around the northern point of Donegal is gorgeous.

I have never been to Donegal!! sigh.. Would love to go there. Got as far as the top of Galway, but no further... sigh. My first Irish language teacher was the cultural attache to the Irish Embassy in Canberra and was from Donegal - we only had her for a few months, but I guarantee all of her students still have a slight Donegal burr.. beautiful accent. Harsh in one sense but lilting at the same time.

AussiePam;1244554 wrote: I have never been to Donegal!! sigh.. Would love to go there. Got as far as the top of Galway, but no further... sigh. My first Irish language teacher was the cultural attache to the Irish Embassy in Canberra and was from Donegal - we only had her for a few months, but I guarantee all of her students still have a slight Donegal burr.. beautiful accent. Harsh in one sense but lilting at the same time.


Donegal is heaven on earth. I love it :-4

Oh my! I had no idea Arlo Guthrie was still going!

I remember hearing "Alice's Restaurant." Long after the event, but I was still impressed.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

Exceptin Alice....

:sneaky:

The turfmen of Donegal digging the turf near my Dad's auld home in Gweedore, Ireland.







This looked like my Auntie Ellen's turf fire in her wee cottage.

Patrick Kavanagh was from Co Monaghan, I think - but here, for you, Kathy, is my favourite poem of his:



Shancoduff



My black hills have never seen the sun rising,

Eternally they look north towards Armagh.

Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been

Incurious as my black hills that are happy

When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel.

My hills hoard the bright shillings of March

While the sun searches in every pocket.

They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn

With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves

In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage.

The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff

While the cattle-drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush

Look up and say: "Who owns them hungry hills

That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken?

A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor."

I hear, and is my heart not badly shaken?

-Patrick Kavanagh

AussiePam;1255791 wrote: Patrick Kavanagh was from Co Monaghan, I think - but here, for you, Kathy, is my favourite poem of his:





Shancoduff





My black hills have never seen the sun rising,

Eternally they look north towards Armagh.

Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been

Incurious as my black hills that are happy

When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel.



My hills hoard the bright shillings of March

While the sun searches in every pocket.

They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn

With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves

In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage.



The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff

While the cattle-drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush

Look up and say: "Who owns them hungry hills

That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken?

A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor."

I hear, and is my heart not badly shaken?



-Patrick Kavanagh


Ahhhh Pam,



I'm so sorry. I've just read this poem now..It's so lovely...Thank you for posting it....

Kathy !! What a special gift you've given me today... digging out that poem. One of my all time favourites. So atmospheric, and with that wry Irish humour. Dour, self deprecating, Northern humour, probably. LOVE IT. Thank you. Now I'm off to meet my sister for lunch - we probably won't see each other till after Christmas (our separate family rollercoasters are now gathering such momentum - grin. I head for Canberra via Goulburn on Sunday to collect D ). Hope all is going well in NJ!!!

AussiePam;1271508 wrote: Kathy !! What a special gift you've given me today... digging out that poem. One of my all time favourites. So atmospheric, and with that wry Irish humour. Dour, self deprecating, Northern humour, probably. LOVE IT. Thank you. Now I'm off to meet my sister for lunch - we probably won't see each other till after Christmas (our separate family rollercoasters are now gathering such momentum - grin. I head for Canberra via Goulburn on Sunday to collect D ). Hope all is going well in NJ!!!


Hello Sweet Pam:-4



I love your poem. Oh, it is so nice that you're meeting your red-haired sister for a lovely lunch...say hello to M and her snake for me:) Of course, you'll take some pics of D soon:-4



I pulled up this thread tonight as I was feeling nostalgic. Just received a DVD from my cousin Liz tonight of the last 4 weddings that I've missed in Ireland during the last few years:-1 It was so wonderful to see pics of my loved ones, but so sad that I couldn't be there...The kidlets are growing too fast, marrying and have babes of their own...and I don't know them yet:(



I just miss everyone so much but can't venture on yet:-1



So, I feel much better now that I can cyber over and then see YOU, my friend, here with me in Donegal:-4



Thanks Pam....I'm going to post a youtube song...Destination Donegal that I still sing now....



YouTube - Destination Donegal - John Kerr

Ahhhhhhh Pam:-4



I think I've missed you.....Have you left for your trip already. I hope you have a wonderful time with the wee one:-6



Just received your package a few days ago. Thank you sooooooo much. I love the beautiful Aussie calendar, lovely green socks:D and of course the Clannad cd....



I'll play one of my fav songs "Sally Gardens" and talk with you upon your return.



Thank you again so much:D



Here's a youtube of them in their Dad's pub "Leo's Tavern" in Gweedore. Unfortunately they were never there when I visited:(



YouTube - Clannad - Down by the Sally Gardens - Live Sept. 08