'Battering' Set Dance, Co. Clare, Ireland 1971
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- Battering requires the dancer to beat out a rhythm on the floor with their feet.
A variation of the Caledonian set dance incorporating treble clicking of heels to each beat of the music, known locally in county Clare as ‘Battering’. This type of dance was banned by the GAA in 1971. However, dancers from Quilty county Clare where the tradition flourishes subsequently won the county set dancing championships.
Reporter Cathal O’Shannon is perplexed as to why this form of dance has been banned and travels to county Clare to ask the locals why.
One musician says,
When they batter, they make time and it gives you an incentive to play better. You go with the feet.
Opposing the banning of this type of dance, one local believes,
If you take the battering, or the trebling as we call it, out of dancing, you might as well give them ballet shoes.
He sees the ‘battering’ as an integral part of the Clare set dance.
This episode of ‘Newsbeat’ was broadcast on 11 February 1971. The reporter is Cathal O’Shannon. 
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Wonderful music and dancing. I used to go to Tulla in County Clare every summer holiday. We'd travel over from Coventry in England. Such lovely people I'd meet. I would give anything to be around those wonderful people again.
1971 was more craic than 2021 !
Fantastic music & dancing lovely to watch & listen to
Know a lot the faces here from my
childhood..Great people R.I.P.
The Piper in this clip a young Michael Falsey from Quilty, County Clare left us a few months ago. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
Oh I looooove to set dance, and I don't need competition. Just dance and have fun❤️🙏
When I first started playing for square dances here in the US, my uncle told me, “No matter what you do, keep the time. If you sour a few notes no one will notice, but if you miss a beat you’ll make a hames of it.”
Wonderful to see such a dancing scene. Dancing is a universal language that we all understand.
How times have changed way back in time the only players were Men, the only lady that we got to see in our area playing traditional music came from a traveling family of musicians, called the Rainys, they were our dear neighbors a few times each year, they lived on the side of the road under a bit of canvas, life was very hard for those traveling people
Must admire these men who will not be told by so called "headquarters" to go against what they know to be right and traditional. If only we had such zeal and valour today in spheres of influence instead of the "go along to get along " attitude that prevails everywhere.
Love the fact that in 1971 this was considered "racy". Heard the words strictly and ballroom mentioned. Perhaps this was ahead of its time?
Trippling or treepling used to be part of country dance in Scotland but the last couple who I knew could treeple died half a dozen years ago. In his younger years George Gall had been a shepherd in Glenshee in the Scottish Highlands but could well demonstrate the treepling in his latter years in Fife. He was also a fine traditional singer.
Irish music is in the feet, in the head, and in the heart, it is the original soul music
Ha ha.......lovely piece by Cathal O' Shannon..... Marty Malley laying down the law.....and rightly so.
I died n I came back dancing
I didnt know that treble sets were this old. We always did ceili dancing. So it was only the GAA that attempted to ban it. That kind of stuff happens all of the time. People try to protect their own interests by banning stuff they havent caught on to. Locally they banned adult solo competitions. I think its back now. People do funny things.
I don't understand that. It was nothing to do with the GAA and the organisation isn't mentioned in the clip. There were plenty of dances in GAA halls but they didn't judge them. Perhaps CR means Ceoltas Ceoltoiri Eireann? They judge the dance competitions and make the rules
I think it was a Scór county final under the auspices of the Clare GAA county board. A lot of familiar faces there - JC Talty, Junior Crehan. Michael Falsey, Marty O’Malley, etc. now no longer with us. The same for my uncle & aunt who were one of the dancing couples. It had a happy ending as they battered away & won the competition.
The only "battering" the one's that wanted it banned did, wasn't on the dance floor. It was in the classroom on little kids
He looks like my uncle Udie (Oo'dee). The first guy.
Foot Schlogglin! 👍❤️
The first man looks like the singer, Cathal Coughlan.
Thought he was more like a Shane McGowan with intact teeth Mark... but fair play to ye for mentioning Cathal - a man and voice that is sorely missed
Love Love Kayle music and the kilfinora Kband band Fantastic in the seventies clare is the place up clare
It’s hard to beat the Clare battering set.
Some oul bullroots about there...lol