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Set 10: ‘The Ballyconnell Colours’.
This named also for Dermot Healy’s work, the title of the flute-and-verse recitals which he and myself first undertook in 1988 at the invitation of Peter Sirr of the Dublin Writers’ Centre; the formula was later used by Seamus Heaney with Liam O’Flynn. ‘Five Women and a Fiddle’, the first reel, was named after a 1980s concert organised by Evelyn Conlon as a celebration of women artists, its title inspired by the performance there of five writers with the Dublin composer and fiddle-player Máire Breathnach. ‘The Rockforest Reel’ was named, out of a chance meeting, for the big-house, Anglo-Irish seat of the family of one Brian Gibson who attended a Scitheredee concert of myself and Tim Lyons in Sutherland, Scotland in 1988. Gibson’s Burke’s-Peerage-listed father had not been hostile to Irish independence and so, in 1921 when they were relieved of their mansion, Rockforest Hall near Roscrea, he opted to move to farm in Scotland rather than follow the family to England. The building had been burnt of course, and a bungalow eventually built on the site. At Brian’s request I located the plans of the old house, which led to convivial meetings and MacAllan-ising between he and the ‘new’ owner and his nephew, Con Manning, an archaeologist with the Board of Works. The final tune of the album, ‘The Wild Goose Chase’ came, like the creatures it emulates, out of the blue in the course of recitals done with Dermot Healy, who by then had just completed a collection of poetry celebrating the nuances in the seasonal comings and goings of the geese on Inismurray island off Co. Sligo, near to where he and Helen spent his latter years surrounded by the ocean. Somewhere in the repetitive riffs there is echo of the haunting guldering of hundreds of migrating geese year after year over centuries, majestic birds utterly unfazed by the massive social and technological readjustments that we mere mortals are obsessed with, and which have rendered Inismurray now home only to geese.

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from Merrijig Creek, track released January 1, 2021
Fintan, Sheena, Caoimhín, Brian, Liz and Gerry.

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Fintan Vallely Dublin, Ireland

Performer on flute, Ireland and world-wide since 1967
Workshop teacher on flute - Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy since 1986, Cruinniú na Bhfliúit Ballyvourney, and Tocane, France; and Friday Harbor, Minneapolis and Catskills, USA.
• Five CD albums of solo and group music
• Written /edited 16 books
• Hundreds of reviews
• Three major conferences organised
• Scores of conference papers and articles ... more

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