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A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via swans, music, Coole Park and Ben Jonson. Season's greetings to you!

St Patrick's Day is not here yet. So let's just celebrate St Patrick's month with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. The Byrne Brothers, Dom Duff, John Doyle, Wolf & Clover, Spoil The Dance, Cavort Celtic, Coast, John Weber, Kris Colt, Coole Park, Reilly, Billy Treacy & the Scope, The Irish Rovers, Marc Gunn, The Muckers I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you Heard a song, tune, or artist that you loved, share this episode. Make sure to tag the artist on social. You can do that on your page or in a Celtic group you're a part of. If you also include the show time, they can quickly listen and enjoy. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is here to build our diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. Musicians rely on your support so they can keep creating new music. If music in this show inspired you, you can buy their CDs, digital downloads, shirts, pins, and other merch. You can follow them on streaming and see their shows. More and more Celtic musicians are on Patreon, just like this podcast. And of course, I always appreciate it when you drop artists an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. How would you like Celtic music news in your inbox? The Irish & Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Subscribe and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:06 - The Byrne Brothers "Waikiki Reel (Finn Byrne) Seanamhac Tube Station Reel [Traditional]" from Living the Dream 3:36 - WELCOME 5:59 - Dom Duff "Chikoloden groove" from Babel pow wow 8:43 - John Doyle "The Rambler from Clare (Song)" from The Path of Stones 13:39 - Wolf & Clover "The Suitor Set" from Twelvemonth and a Day 20:08 - Spoil The Dance "The Heron" from Returning Home 24:12 - FEEDBACK 29:13 - Cavort Celtic "Wild Rover" from Kilted Cavort 32:09 - Coast "On This Day (Acoustic Version)" from On This Day EP 36:37 - John Weber & Friends "The Banks of Skibbereen" from The Banks of Skibbereen 40:44 - Kris Colt "Night Visit (Featuring Steve Ayvazian)" from Arms of a Stranger 43:47 - THANKS 47:03 - Coole Park "Lower the Sails" from Water Journeys 51:03 - Reilly "Hell's Half Acre" from Durty Pool 55:40 - Billy Treacy & the Scope "Dollymount Beach" from Life 1:00:18 - The Irish Rovers "Hey Boys Sing Us a Song" from No End in Sight 1:05:43 - CLOSING 1:07:55 - Marc Gunn & The Muckers "Kilty Pleasure" from Selcouth The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. The show was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. Subscribe through your favorite podcatcher or on our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME TO IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a musician and podcaster. If you're new to the podcast, I share my love of Irish and Celtic music from around the globe with you. The artists in this show need your support which you can do by buying their music. You can find a link to all of the artists, along with show times and chapters for each song when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. SPEAKING OF PATREON… I don't know if you knew this. But I donate 10% of all of the money that is earned on Patreon to Celtic Non - Profits. I do the same with our Celtic compilation CDs. The money goes largely to Celtic festivals where we promote Celtic culture through music. I keep track of the donations to all the festivals and organizations on our website. Well, I say that, but I hadn't updated that list in about four years, even though I continued to make donations. We donated $4200 last year to different festivals. To date, we've donated over $45,000. You can find the complete list of Celtic Non - Profit donations on our website. PET PEEVE I have a pet peeve to share. I got a Facebook message from someone representing a Celtic artist. They said, “I see your preferred method of contact is Facebook”. Let me be clear. Facebook is my LAST method of contact. It is the #1 place I promote the podcast. But I do not like Facebook. It also shows a complete disinterest in finding out how to contact me. Don't get me wrong. You are welcome to message me there. I started looking at messages recently after 3 - 5 years of forgetting I could. But I still prefer a direct email. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2022 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2022 episode.  Vote Now! WHAT'S NEW IN IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC: BEST OF 2022 Two weeks after the episode is launched, I compile the latest Celtic Top 20 votes to update a playlist on Spotify and Amazon Music. These are the results of your voting. You can help these artists out by following the playlists and adding tracks you love to your playlists. The newest band added to the playlist: Poitin Band, Kilmaine Saints, The Rogues, The Carroll Sisters Listen on Spotify and Amazon Music. BUY SELCOUTH BY MARC GUNN My latest CD features Sci F'Irish music. That means it is original songs fusing pop culture themes with Irish drinking songs. There are some traditional music on the album. But mostly, it features songwriting by Marc Gunn with guests including: Screeched Inn, The Muckers, Jamie Haeuser, Sam Gillogly, Nathan Deese, and Mikey Mason. Selcouth means, “when everything is strange and different, yet you find it marvelous anyway.” The album is not completely Celtic and it's not just science fiction and fantasy. It's a fusion of the two. It's heartfelt and a lot of fun. It's now on sale in my Bandcamp store. Check out Selcouth now. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ WE HAVE A COMPANION PODCAST Pub Songs & Stories is a Virtual Public House for musicians to share the stories and inspiration behind their music. I ask musicians on this show to share a story about a song or tune, from a gig, or maybe even just a piece of Celtic history that they love. I share their story and the related song in the podcast. I also share songs from the Best of 2022 playlist. And of course, I talk about some of my songs and what's new with me. Just like this show, it is free to subscribe. THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out at least four times a month. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow. A super special thanks to our newest Patrons: Shelley W, Andrew P Now I mentioned the show comes out at least four times a month. Typically, I plan to take a week off every quarter. But the podcast lost a few patrons over the past month. Meanwhile, our expenses went up last year. I have an audio engineer, graphic artist, social media person, plus there's advertising expenses and I buy the music from all of the artists who complete the permission form. So I think it's time for a new patronage milestone. The next off week is June 2. I want to do a very special 2 - 3 hour episode. I'm not sure of the theme. I'll let you know in the coming weeks. But I set the goal at $850 per episode. That means we need to raise $70 per episode. That will cover the new expenses. That's about 15 new people subscribing on Patreon. I know that's a pretty tough goal to reach. But you have until May 1 to sign up. If we can do that, then you will get that incredible show on June 2. Oh! And every patron will get a bumper sticker as well as a small way of saying thanks. You also get to hear episodes before regular listeners. Any amount is great. You can pledge a dollar or more per episode and cap how much you want to spend each month over on Patreon. You can also get music - only episodes when you become a Song Henger. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Bonnie Menard replied on a Facebook post: "Marc, I just have to tell you. I was listening to another Irish & Celtic Music Podcast at work and then I found yours. This week I switched to Pub Songs and Stories and I am loving it. On both your podcasts all the music and artists are great, but my favorite is you. By Amazing Grace and the Mingulay Boat song are amazing. Such a powerful voice. I can't wait to find the time to visit your websites and order a cd. Thank you for all you do." Moxie LaBouche messaged on Facebook: "Love the show.  In the warm months I listen on the weekends while working in the yard or cutting firewood and in the winter I listen while doing the grocery shopping.

Druid Theatre Company stages 'The Seagull' at Coole Park, Eileen Walsh plays fading actress Isobel Desmond, & Jack Gleeson – best known as the villainous Joffrey in Game of Thrones – is her lonely son, Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, Kate Brennan Harding previews, Tony Tracy recommends where to begin with the films of James Cagney.

A day that can be divided straight down the middle into two contrasting halves. A rushed and bouncing concentration on non-negotiables that need to be done each morning before we start our hike leads to a disturbing and unfocused mental state for the first few hours of today’s journey from Namche to Debouche. To add to this unhelpful state, there were two elements of today’s route that frustrated me. Firstly, it lulled to into a false sense of comfort due to the flat bordering on a very mild incline, reminiscent of a Sunday stroll in Coole Park, then out of nowhere a steep incline. There you were strolling along admiring the incredible views and forgetting on some level what you’re here to do and the next thing you know your heart rate is hitting 170 as you unexpectedly climb a bunch of steep steps. A cunning tactic to agitate a mind. Secondly, there was a long 45-minute descent to cross the river again that played havoc with my knees. Today I moved poorly from the off and this section accentuated that hugely, causing me to berate myself for not focusing fully and well enough on my morning activation and stretch. Once across the river, we stopped at a ramshackle old tea house. Over a ginger tea and two overpriced Snickers, I identified my wandering mind, had some words with myself, and reset. It helped that the next 45 mins to 1 hour were straight up an aggressive hill, therefore I could dial in a deep concentration on position, my go-to controllable. As I said in my last post, I love these moments of work, striving to achieve something important to me. This hour of hard graft uphill paved the way for a much better second half of the day, which accumulated in a visit to the colorful Tengboche monastery. After a flying visit due to the caretaker monk having to deliver some bamboo to Debouche for an upcoming Puja, we strolled the last gentle 20 minutes downhill to Debouche and found our lovely lodge for the night, Rivendell. Onwards... Make sure to subscribe, so as not to miss an episode. Watch and follow Damian as it happens on his Instagram @Auldstock & @Deeprootspod You can become a patron by singing up here > https://www.patreon.com/DamianBrowne

Druid Theatre Company is touring the West of Ireland with a set of plays written by Lady Gregory. Judy Murphy reviews the opening night at Coole Park, home of Lady Gregory.

DruidGregory is an evening of plays by Lady Gregory - in a month-long tour of county Galway that begins at Coole Park, director Garry Hynes & actor Marie Mullen discuss, Chris Wasser reviews Away, a new science-fiction series about the first manned mission to Mars, Eileen Walsh on The South Westerlies & Emma Martin on Bird Boy at Dublin Fringe.

Colm Tóibín on his selection: When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory met at the end of the nineteenth century, she, thirteen years his senior, had published very little. She was a widow living in a large house called Coole Park in County Galway in West Ireland. He was every inch the young poet. She had one son, Robert, who spent most of his time in London. Until his marriage in 1917, Yeats spent many summers at Coole. He and Lady Gregory collaborated on many projects, including plays and the founding of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1918, after Robert Gregory was killed in the First World War, Yeats came to Coole, joining Lady Gregory and her daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Yeats there wrote his two great elegies for Robert: “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,” a public poem remembering a hero, and the other, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” in a more hushed tone, written for a ghostly voice, attempting to offer his old friend comfort by finding a new context for his death, suggesting balance and completion for the dead airman rather than strife or tragedy. These poems were written in a time of loss, in a place where no visitors came, when the house was isolated so that the poet could work.

Relax and focus with a Celtic Instrumental Music Study Aid. http://bestcelticmusic.net/ Out of Alba, Kennedy's Kitchen, Gerry O'Beirne & Rosie Shipley, Scott Boswell, Ciana, Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger, Enda Seery, Talisk, Caledonia Swing, Beer Belly, The Bringers, Gillian Boucher, Coole Park, New Shilling, Sprag Session, Oisin McAuley. I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show with ONE friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is dedicated to growing our community and helping the incredible artists who so generously share their music. If you find music you love, buy their albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow them on Spotify, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Remember also to Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. Every Thursday, I'll send you 4 or 5 cool bits of Celtic music news. It's a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Plus, you'll get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free, just for signing up today. Thank you again for being a Celt of Kindness. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 With the new year comes a new votes in the Celtic Top 20. This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. Just list the show number, and the name of as many bands in the episode as you like. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2019 episode. http://bestcelticmusic.net/vote/ THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:06 "Mr and Mrs McLean of Snaigow and Asoken" by Out of Alba from Nithi Sessions 5:02 "The Bits Set" by Kennedy's Kitchen from A Pocket Full of Lint 7:59 "Air" by Gerry O'Beirne & Rosie Shipley from Yesterday, I Saw the Earth Beautiful 9:31 "Plantxy Irwin" by Scott Boswell from Jug of Punch 12:10 "Far Away-La Marche Des Élèves-Old Maids of Galway" by Ciana from Rubicon 17:49 CELTIC FEEDBACK 18:55 "Strong Ciders" by Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger from Sound & Fury 23:25 "The Killleigh, Langtons of Kilkenny hornpipes" by Enda Seery from Peace of the Countryside 26:40 "Cabot Trail" by Talisk from Beyond 31:25 "Soldier's Joy" by Caledonia Swing from Something Like That! 33:13 "Donnybrook Fair" by Beer Belly from Paddy's Boots 34:53 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 36:33 "Corkscrew Set" by The Bringers from Ramblers and Rovers 39:15 "Farewell to Muswell Hill" by Gillian Boucher from Elemental 43:15 "Old Hag, You Have Killed Me" by Coole Park from Water Journeys 47:48 "Funky Set" by New Shilling from New Shilling 52:21 "Good Ship Tommy Fun" by Sprag Session from Sprag Session 59:50 "Lover's Ghost/Maud Miller" by Oisin McAuley from Far From The Hills of Donegal The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to Apple Podcasts or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.   CELTIC PODCAST NEWS * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic musician and podcaster. This show is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. I want to ask you to support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. Also see: iNSTRUMENTAL cELTIC mUSIC sTUDY aID and our 3-Hours of Instrumental Celtic Music. I have links to both of those episodes on YouTube in the shownotes. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is a proud sponsor of the Savannah Irish Festival. 10% of all the profits made by the podcast goes toward supporting Celtic non-profits. Usually I look for small Celtic festivals where we can do the most good and who also feature some of the artists who are featured in this podcast. I'm happy to see that Seamus Kennedy and Syr are both performing at the Savannah Irish Festival. If you'd like to win some free tickets to the festival. Please subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. And make sure you check out the festival website: https://www.savannahirish.org/ If you have know of a smaller Celtic festival who could use our support, please contact me. The 2019 Stickers are now available in our store at MageRecords.com.   TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through it's culture, history, and legends. 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There's a lot of great Celtic music in Canada. Today, I want to introduce you to some of the hottest indie Celtic bands to cross the Canadian border to be heard around the globe with awesome Celtic music from The Fretless, NUA, Coole Park, Bonhomme Setter, Duncan Cameron, Kailyarders, Dust Rhinos, Sora, Chrissy Crowley, Madd Paddy, Jesse Ferguson, Rant Maggie Rant, The Irish Rovers, The Rolling Kings, Gillian Boucher, Bodh'aktan, The Malarkeys, Heather Dale, The Sheridan Band, Oona McOuat, Cod Gone Wild, Brad Reid, The Mudmen, Bang on the Ear, Keelhaul, Searson, Ennis, Hawp. If you enjoy this podcast, then please rate the show on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. Then subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Subscribe today to download 34 Celtic MP3s for free. 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You can Become a Patrons of the Podcast and help us hit the next Milestone which will feature 2-hours of Celtic Women.   Notes: * Each week, 150 people pledge $1 or more per episode to help pay for the production of the podcast. Whenever we hit a Milestone, you get an extra-long episode of Celtic music. You can Become a Patrons of the Podcast and help us hit the next Milestone which will feature 2-hours of Celtic Women. Special thanks to our newest Patrons: Dave and Patrick Huge shoutout to our Celtic Superstars: Peter Tilghman, Bryan Brake, Chris, Ockham's Razor, John Sharkey White, II, Theresa Sullivan, Brendan Nix, John Bilderback, Rian P Kegerreis, samual hill, Johnny Berry, Shawn Cali * With the demise of Live365 at the end of January, Celtic Roots Radio moved to a new home online. You can still listen 24/7 at http://celticrootsradio.fastcast4u.com. Find details at http://www.celticrootsradio.com/ * This week, I launched the New Celtic CDs show on Facebook. 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You can email a written comment to music@celticmusicpodcast.com along with a picture of what you're doing while listening to this podcast, or from one of your trips to one of the Celtic nations. Steve Rausch sent in a voicemail. John from Northeastern Ohio sent a voicemail. Becky Collier emailed: "I've had the app a few weeks & just now starting to listen & enjoy. It's great! Thanks for what you do. I'm not really sure how this works...you ask for at least $1 per episode...so how is it to be paid? I probably missed something...lol." Stephen Warta sent a picture and an email: "I have listened to your podcast on and off for the last 5 or so years. I always loved Celtic music and your podcast makes it really easy to hear a great variety of music that is hard to find otherwise. I have been traveling in South America for the past three months, and your podcasts provide awesome tunes for the long, lonely roads. Attached is me over looking Ushuaia and the Strait of Megellan in the southern end of Argentina. I was listening to "2 Hours of Celtic Fiddle Music" while climbing that mountain. Thanks for all you do."   This Week in Celtic Music 0:43 "Dirty Harry" by The Fretless from The Fretless Vancouver, British Colombia 5:33 "Happy Cammy Drammy Birthday" by NUA from BOLD Toronto 9:27 "Lower the Sails" by Coole Park from Water Journeys Toronto 13:27 "Man of the House" by Bonhomme Setter from Obia Quebec 18:19 "The Mickey Dam" by Duncan Cameron from The Whistling Thief Sudbury, Ontario 22:13 CELTIC MUSIC NEWS 23:12 "Maritime Girl" by Kailyarders from King of the Jolly White Rock, B.C 26:22 "Rocky Road to Dublin" by Dust Rhinos from I Should Behave Winnipeg, Manitoba 31:29 "Piper" by Sora from Scorpion Moon Calgary 35:24 "Stepdance Set" by Chrissy Crowley from Last Night's Fun Cape Breton 38:24 "The Roving Journeyman" by Madd Paddy from Arrived Toronto 44:16 "Byker Hill" by Jesse Ferguson from The Butcher Boy Cornwall, Ontario 48:15 "Mayor Harrisons Set" by Rant Maggie Rant from Rant Maggie Rant Stratford, Ontario 58:13 "All For Me Grog" by The Irish Rovers from Drunken Sailor Nanoose Bay 1:02:25 "P Stands for Paddy" by The Rolling Kings from Raise a Class St. John's, Newfoundland 1:05:48 "Lorraine's Dream" by Gillian Boucher from Elemental Broad Cove (Inverness Co.), Nova Scotia 1:10:16 "Du Rhum, Des Femmes" by Bodh'aktan from Au diable les remords Montreal 1:12:41 "The Old Wild Boar" by The Malarkeys from Bloody Brillaint Kelowna, BC 1:16:00 "Health to the Company" by Heather Dale from My Celtic Heart Toronto 1:21:47 "Run Around With Me" by The Sheridan Band from No Bar's Too Far St Thomas, Ontario 1:25:40 "This Is A Prayer" by Oona McOuat from Honey & Holy Water Salt Spring Island, British Columbia 1:31:06 "Black and Tans" by Cod Gone Wild from Cod Gone Wild Vernon, BC 1:34:38 "The Lame Duck" by Brad Reid from The Conunundrum Halifax 1:37:54 "Dirty Old Town" by The Mudmen from The High Road Alvinston, Ontario 1:42:38 CELTIC FEEDBACK 1:46:44 "Donkey Riding" by Bang on the Ear from Pubs, Pints & Pipes Glengarry County, Ontario 1:49:13 "Skipping to Dublin" by Keelhaul from A Maritime Tradition Vancouver 1:51:36 "Friday Night" by Searson from Live Ottawa Valley, Ontario 1:54:55 "Sing You Home" by Ennis from Lessons Learned St John's Newfoundland 2:00:47 "The Shieldhill Lady" by Hawp from Storm and Calm Canning, Nova Scotia The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. 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On this day 45 years ago, the 23rd August 1968, George Yeats, wife of William Butler Yeats, passed away. They say that you should never meet your idols, nevermind marrying one. Iconic figures in literature from Joyce to Hemingway to Fitzgerald, not to mention Hunter S. Thompson have have difficult marriages that have been well documented. George Yeats had to put up with a snob, a bore and an absent-minded professor type. We saw the poetry, she saw the socks. Have a look at the excellent @MundaneBond on Twitter for a perfect ribbing of an icon during downtime. With thanks to Padraic Dempsey of the RIA on RTE Radio 1 this evening, we learned just how much of a debt we owe to this woman. Yeats was indeed a genius and George went about dedicating her life after marriage to ensuring that Yeats would be allowed to focus on his poetry while she took care of the banalities of life from preparing meals, organizing his travel arrangements, taking care of the children and just about everything else that makes normal life possible. Unlike Yeats, she was a very private individual; her own children did not even know where she was born until after her death. Indeed having worked in Fleet in Hampshire myself, I can't blame her. She was by no means a 'shrinking violet' though and was by all accounts the only woman who was not afraid of the redoubtable Lady Gregory. On being asked what it was like to live with a genius, she wearily responded that she didn't tend to notice that she was. She did everything for Yeats including on one memorable occasion having to telegram a perplexed Yeats that the oil he needed to put in to his light at Coole Park was paraffin - what else could it possibly be, olive oil? She put up with his countless affairs, which increased after they stopped having sex in 1928. On the audio, you'll hear how Yeats had monkey glands attached to improve his virility. It certainly affected his judgment. In 1936 when editing a poetry collection, his lover, the rather average poet Margaret Ruddock, had seven poems included with the likes of Auden only having three. George would write politely to Ruddock and the other lovers with details about Yeats taking his medication as directed by doctors. With increasing frustration and little thanks, George carried out all these tasks and ensured that Yeats was able to dedicate his final years to writing some of his best work - a point Mary makes in the audio piece. Georgie met Yeats in 1910. Seven years later, when she was 25 and he 52, he asked her to marry him. Only a few weeks earlier Iseult Gonne, the daughter of Maud Gonne whom Yeats had loved for many years, had rejected a marriage proposal from him. Georgie and Yeats married just three weeks later, on 20 October 1917, in a public registry office,witnessed by her mother and Ezra Pound. During the honeymoon, while Yeats was still brooding about Iseult's rejection, Georgie began the automatic writing which fascinated him. He wrote about it days later in what was to be A Vision, and it held the marriage together for many years. Within a year of marriage he declared her name of Georgie to be insufferable, and henceforth called her George. This says it all. George would have known of Yeats's obsession with Maud Gonne and of the rejected proposal to her daughter. She shrewdly overlooked this as she did his affairs and saw the bigger picture. A 'sloppy second' she may have been to some, but in death as in life, he was fortunate to have such a capable partner. George was an assiduous and dedicated Literary Executor after his death in 1939. She'd a better knowledge of European literature than he did and she managed the estate fairly and with aplomb for the next 30 years or so. She is buried beside him in Drumcliffe; when next visiting, spare a thought for this unsung heroine with the patience of a saint. The audio comes from our multimedia Yeats Country audio guide, available for free from the Donegal Bay and Yeats Country tour on the Donegal App: http://www.donegalapp.com Audio: Mary Murphy and Sean McMahon, 2009 Text: John Ward #Yeats #Sligo #poetry #Treadsoftly

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Episode twenty in the series: In the middle of the last seven years the beast, Anti-Christ, will put a stop to the temple sacrifices. After subduing three of the ten rulers who gave him his power he will oppress the saints and change the set times and laws. His army will tramp on the holy city (Jerusalem) for 42 months. The beast will exercise his authority to blaspheme God and to make war against the saints. “There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations,” for “time, times and half a time.” There will be a ‘rapture’ event, being “caught up into the clouds”, but it will NOT be a secret – far from it!  The whole earth – “every eye” – will witness it! Our being ‘caught up’ will take place at the last trumpet, AFTER the conclusion of the 1,260 days of the Great Tribulation! --------------------   With music from: Coole Park (Ontario, Canada) – 'Old Hag, You Have Killed Me', (   Water Journeys );   Michael Cameron and Frontline (Northern Ireland, UK) – 'Speak the Name', (Hard on Your Heels);   Kaedmon (California, USA) – 'My Love', ( My Love).   Produced by Precious Oil Productions Ltd for Kingdom Come Trust

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Our fifteenth podcast is the first of this academic year, and is also the first in a series of podcasts on individual poems on the Higher Level Leaving Certificate course. This one is on W.B. Yeats's poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole', and sets the poem in its literary and historical background. The second volume of Roy Foster's biography, which is quoted in the podcast, is The Arch-Poet. The Yeats exhibition at the National Library of Ireland, is open now, and the website is here (you can see the manuscript of 'Wild Swans' online by searching). Coole Park's website is here.

The life of Lady Gregory, one of the key personnel involved in the Irish Literary Revival. She co-founded the Irish Literary and Abbey Theatres and her home at Coole Park was a meeting place for many of the revival heavyweights. (Broadcast 1960)