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Getting used to living in an era of great change and uncertainty
Sep 28, 2020
HELLO TO the devil may cares and sufferers of cabin fever, you’re all welcome to the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish.
It has to be said that the Bluffer is idir dhá chomhairle - in two minds about the new normal.
Depending on how upbeat he’s feeling, he mighgt say níl caill air - it’s not too bad or he might be in the depths of an galar dubhach - depression.
The thing he misses most is not na pubanna - the pubs but going to listen to ceol beo - live music and drámaí - plays in proper venues.
He was never a big fan of watching coirmeacha - concerts on line because it doesn’t have the atmosphere of a live gig and usually bíonn caighdeán na fuaime go holc - the sound quality is bad.
However, he watched a great documentary on the Dublin fiddler Tommy Potts last week as part of the Dublin music festival MusicTown.
Not only was there some stunning music from Liam O’Connor and Niamh Ní Bhriain but Potts was also a fear dóiteáin - a firefighter and Macdara Yeates’ programme taught a lot about life in Dublin in the 1930s.
Three Dublin firemen lost their lives in fighting a fire in Pearse Street in 1936, but luckily Potts survived.
He said he stopped to say three Hail Marys as he made his way inside the burning building and that pause helped save his life.
Later, the families of the dead firemen were put out of their homes because the houses were for firemen only.
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