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Growing up in Wales, my grandfather was a coal miner who played the fiddle for the people in our village. He was a hero to the kids there and the parents would beg him to teach their kids how to play the fiddle. Fiddlers are the aristocrats of the working-class. If you were a tradesman or a miner who could play the fiddle, you were respected and loved, just like my grandfather.

These women remind me of my mother family the Gillespie and Breslin. My mother and nanny had black hair like these women and sewed, knitted, made rugs, embroidery. These skills were passed down from generations of Donegal women who came to Pennsylvania coal town.

Lovely music from a lovely soul.

What a great documentary. My granny was born in Donegal and paternal 2nd great-grandparents were tinsmiths from Donegal as were their parents and children going back to at least the early 1800s to around the 1950s or maybe slightly later, from what I could find out. Caulfield, McConnell, Doherty, McGinley families from Castlefinn and Letterkenny and I had some ancestors born in Derry. My 2nd great-grandfather, Hugh Caulfield when he married my 2nd great-grandmother, on their marriage certificate it said he had no place of residence and I know while his family Caulfield's were from Castlefinn, Donegal, they travelled between Donegal and Derry and possibly Tyrone.

The furry is behind him, class☘️

If anyone has ever seen Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein, this guy is a ringer!😂

So smooth! I've heard these tunes played alot but he gives them a whole different feel.

Myself and my lovely da listened to Tony and Barney every week when they were touring Europe. We loved them.

All the women sittin round thinkin, I cant wait till this nonsense is over till I get a good seeing to 😆

The guitar is playing itself!

Thank you for sharing this history!

Still the best version I’ve ever heard

I was there the night Rob recorded this.

Very enjoyable but from face alone, I can't tell if he's playing a jaunty tune or watching East Enders.

Lovely interesting unique style

God rest and protect the the great people of Ireland ❤

John is the best donegal musician that ever lived. He was to donegal music what Coleman was to sligo.

My favourite instrument... great musician

At 40 seconds in you can see that his Paolo Soprani accordion is missing the fingerboard cover! The grille is also shrouded by some kind of thin screen. I wonder if this is one of Cooley's old boxes?

He was the very best we will ever hear... but I'm sure he hoped there would be fellas coming up that would be just as good if not better - if better was possible...

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Brilliant

The best box player this country has ever produced. RIP.

This is peak mcmahon beautiful stuff

Excellent,

Excellent,

Excellent,

Excellent,

Excellent,

They really looked like they were enjoying themselves in those days

1954

So many musicians and singers got their first broadcast outings through Ciaran Mac Mathuna who sadly never moved far beyond Limerick or Clare thus depriving many others the same opportunity

2:50 tune your fiddle sir!

Gifted man. Old ways when people made time for each other and appreciated the traditions handed down from past generations.

Go raibh suaimhneas agus solas geal ort go brách a Antoin. RIP.

R.I.P. Tony..9th October 2021

Wow!

That last Jig sounds suspiciously like Leather Britches. Must be a relative.

is there a drum in that box? :)

way ahead of his time

Thanks Johnny❤️

Lovely stuff

what a time that was, when everyone could gather in the pubs, talk and laugh in the street and slap hands, and stay over and visit each other. I wish it was still like that. Travelers were welcome to stay in people's houses, and they "got lonely" when they stopped coming. Fabulous stuff.

gGád he looks even more bored than the audience

Great documentary w remarkable footage of Irish culture.

Hate to contradict Mairead, but I'm a rural/suburban Irish-American whose family has roots in Donegal, and what I hear in the music is not escapism, it's strength, power and drive. The drive to survive that I hear in all of Irish music, but on steroids!

Living

Máiréaidín a Ghráidh ❤️🌺❤️

This great man, Joe Cooley, Charlie Harris, Conor Keane and many others do justice for the C#D style of accordion playing!!

Bring back the Derry/Killybegs Train