MY CLASS

Eithne, the teacher is in the middle in the front.

CÉILÍ MÓR

CEOLTÓIRÍ CEANN DUBHRANN

TRÁ GEAL

Stiofán, Marcas, Rita, Bríd on the Silver Strand.

RANG SEAN-NÓS

The songs we’ve learned so far are:
Coinleach Glás an Fhomhair,
Ní Fheicfear Níos Mó Thú a Mhuirnín,
Róisín Dubh,
Gárdaí an Rí,
Cailín a tSléibhe Ruaidh,
Na Francaigh Bána,
Lá Breá Te Sa tSamhradh

OÍCHE DEN SCOTH

Máirtín Ó Dugáin
Brian Ó Baoill
Cití Sheáin
Treasa Ní Clafartaigh
Brian Ó Domhnaill
Neilí Ó Baoill
Gearoidín Bhreathnach

MÁLAINN MHÓR

We have taken to walking together Marcas, Stiofáin and me. We drove out to the area where the portal tombs are located all in a row along the road. We parked the car at the National School and started walking thinking that it might be a few kilometers. After about twenty minutes we saw a car about to go into a driveway. The car had a Kerry registration but we greeted the driver in Irish and she answered us back with a beautiful Donegal accent. She told us that we were very close to the first monument. We would have to go past the knitting factory and we would see it on the right. We walked for another 10 minutes before we saw the stones.
We found the entrance to the path across the bog. There was a small sign warning us that the monument was under the care of the government and we should not damage it. But there was no other information about the age of the monument or who might have built it. So much for encouraging cultural tourism!

BIG SESSION IN BIDDY'S

FIDIL 3

Fidil

AMACH AG SIÚL

RABELAIS

Andrew is a man who knows his way around Burgandy.
Rabelais

GLEANN PORTRAITS

Liam, Micheál, Andrew

SÉAMAS MAC ANNAIDH

Séamas Mac Annaidh
Cuaifeach Mo Londubh Buí

AG CASADH AN tSÚGÁIN

Stiofán "ag casadh an tsúgáin"
(It's a song).

AN RÓN DALL

TWO SISTERS

Róisín and Betty: which one is Mary and which one is Martha?

A LA DONEGALOISE

I got my hair cut in Donegal Town at Denis The Barber just off the Diamond. Denis himself cut my hair and did his best to rein in my eyebrows. We chatted about life in the United States. Denis is really interested in the history of the Civil War but he has never been to the States.

FÍBÍN - ÉIST LE DO CHROÍ

There is always something special in the Gleann for Summer School. This year, Fíbín – a theater group from Galway – performed the story of the Rón Dall, or the blind seal. As one performer read the story another played live music while a third painted scenes from the story on large panels. At the end of the story they put the four individual panels together and bound them together in one large picture of the blind seal. It was a truly magical experience.
The story of the play was taken from the work of William Maxwell and his book Wild Sports of the West.