‘The music of Joe’s life could be described as The Leitrim Cake: in it the salty-sweet taste of home, timeless, universal, crusted on the hearth of vanished fires; cure for deep hunger; a taste that lingers,the best of youth and consolation of age.’ This CD of recordings of Joe Lacky Gallagher, ‘The Leitrim Cake: Music [...]
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Drumkeeran: A Photo Tribute 2010 Calendar
This year’s calendar has a large number of photographs of school groups and weddings going back over many years. Calendars may be purchased in local shops. Those living abroad may order it by contacting Seamus Duignan at duignanseamus@eircom.net
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The Leitrim Cake
‘The music of Joe’s life could be described as The Leitrim Cake: in it the salty-sweet taste of home, timeless, universal, crusted on the hearth of vanished fires; cure for deep hunger; a taste that lingers,the best of youth and consolation of age.’
This CD of recordings of Joe Lacky Gallagher, ‘The Leitrim Cake: Music Bright and Undiminished’, is available to purchase online from this website. The CD is available for shipping within the Republic of Ireland, the USA or the UK – please select the appropriate button below (NB/ purchases can only be made in one currency at a time).
The Leitrim Cake CD – (For ROI)
€16 – Including postage and packaging within the Republic of Ireland
The Leitrim Cake CD – (For USA)
$22 – Including postage and packaging to the USA
The Leitrim Cake CD – (For UK)
£15 – Including postage and packaging to the USA
Sleeve Notes:
The photos tell a story: a man of devilment and fun, eager for life and living it to the full. Upstanding on horseback, laughing and relaxed, hard-working, constantly on the move. The music tells its own story and conveys something of the heart of the player: honesty,clarity, sweet sureness, a small hint of melancholy at the knotted core of the dance and gaiety. Joe Lacky Gallagher was one of the great musicians, a natural-born player, He came out of a great landscape of music and added to it. To listen to those remarkable recordings is to travel in time and place. Back to Cloonamurgal, the townland near Drumkeeran where he was born in 1918. Back to the old way of naming, where a son was given his father’s or his grandfather’s (or maybe grandmother’s) first name as a kind of distinguishing mark: in a landscape of many Gallagher families Joe became Joe Lacky, the ‘Lacky’ derived from a shortened form of his father Malachy’s name. But even that had an older root: Joe’s great-grandfather had also been Malachy or Lacky – “Auld Lacky”. So Joe became Joe Lacky to distinguish him from other Gallaghers’ around, from his cousins and extended kin.
Drumkeeran: A Photo Tribute 2010 Calendar
Dromkeeran 2010 Calendar
This year’s calendar has a large number of photographs of school groups and weddings going back over many years. Calendars may be purchased in local shops. Those living abroad may order it by contacting Seamus Duignan at duignanseamus@eircom.net
