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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024
  • John Cullinane, from County Cork step dancing the Liverpool Hornpipe; Seán O Cearbhaill from Limerick on the fiddle & looking on are the members of the Tulla Céili Band. Recorded on 29th September 1963 at a Fleadh Cheoil in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

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  • @declanoconnor9134
    @declanoconnor9134 5 лет назад +84

    It's attractive to watch the dancing..But..Listen to the faultless violin playing ( accompaninment ) A perfect Duo..

    • @nualacolgan554
      @nualacolgan554 2 года назад

      0😅😅😊😊

    • @KittyStarlight
      @KittyStarlight 2 года назад +3

      Enchanting. ⭐☘️⭐
      Especially together. 💚☘️💚
      Beautiful. ❤️💙❤️

  • @PtolemyofEgyptI
    @PtolemyofEgyptI 14 лет назад +18

    Very impressive... It is little wonder that John Cullinane has become an Irish dancing master and the world's leading authority on Irish dance history.

  • @tudgemyster
    @tudgemyster 11 лет назад +18

    Remarkable a musician able to play at the right tempo ......without speeding up and up what ever happen to this gift?

  • @Sisyphus.p
    @Sisyphus.p 3 года назад +12

    This is by far the best varsion of hornpipe I have ever listened.

  • @andrewhoward7200
    @andrewhoward7200 5 лет назад +23

    Beautiful. Such accomplished and restrained artistry.I should love to have seen Ireland back then.

    • @johntuohy1867
      @johntuohy1867 3 года назад +5

      The ease in the playing and in the steps. No speeded up dis ease.
      True tradition.

  • @wildatheartgirl3
    @wildatheartgirl3 16 лет назад +101

    Wow I really love this. Irish dance, today, has literally just turned into a bunch of glitz and glam. I wish it was still more like this. The beats are lovely and fit perfectly with the music. you don't need a bunch of fancy crap to make it look amazing.

    • @seandwyer1823
      @seandwyer1823 4 года назад +18

      Hornpipes played as they should be, a distinct slow beat that times correctly with the dancers feet. It has become a modern 'fashion' to play them at ridiculous speeds to impress listeners....If you listen to any of the 'old time' players of Ireland, none of them hurried any tune, there was great attention paid to timing and inflexion.

    • @soulpaua2097
      @soulpaua2097 3 года назад +6

      I agree. Mind you if it hadn't been for those LOTD vhs' I'd never have picked up or studied traditional music.

    • @martinfreekie7659
      @martinfreekie7659 3 года назад +7

      This has not gone away. You just have a choice now.

    • @wendybooth5424
      @wendybooth5424 3 года назад +2

      @@martinfreekie7659 hi please can I ask if this is from a dance school, Claude Jean Moriarty?

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 2 года назад +3

      The real deal

  • @easportzz
    @easportzz 16 лет назад +41

    that is probably the most perfect sound i have ever heard

    • @endah9692
      @endah9692 8 месяцев назад +1

      Best comment here. 😊

  • @scoutz0rs
    @scoutz0rs 3 года назад +4

    What a legend. I think I have all of Dr. Cullinane’s books.

  • @yef122
    @yef122 3 года назад +13

    My favorite ceili band in the background - their name visble on the drum - the mighty Tulla Ceili Band 💚🤍🧡 🇮🇪
    Up the Banner! 💛💙💛💙

  • @hughmccafferty
    @hughmccafferty 10 лет назад +77

    I love that this is so much more lyrical than the breakneck speed we seem to aspire to now.

    • @clarebannerman
      @clarebannerman  5 лет назад +19

      @freethoughtmusic _The same here in Ireland...Notice also how beautiful the music is...not played at breakneck speed..but every note as clear as a mountain stream...ℳ∁_

    • @seandwyer1823
      @seandwyer1823 4 года назад +4

      @@clarebannerman Exactly.....I don't attend any festivals anymore, way too many otherwise gifted young players all racing along at breakneck speed to impress onlookers tourists and those who don't know anything about Irish Traditional music......The old music was rarely ever played that way, maybe wrong to term any of it now as 'traditional' because, apart from the scores, no, it isn't....

    • @wendybooth5424
      @wendybooth5424 3 года назад +2

      @freethoughtmusic well explained. I haven't gone to any dance festivals in recent years, but I hadn't thought about the fact that they are most likely to reflect the dumming down of music, art etc, though now awareness is growing at last, that authentic is pure, simpler, higher quality, better. Like origal nature based crafts and Cornish hedge "laying, making" training, dry stone walls of Yorkshire. My aunt ran Cork dance school when Jean Moriarty gave it to her and another friend colleague

    • @untonsured
      @untonsured 2 года назад +1

      Coleman and Morrison and their contemporaries actually played faster than 90% of modern players if we are talking about beats per minute. So, that's pure nonsense. What might be different is the phrasing.

  • @wildatheartgirl3
    @wildatheartgirl3 17 лет назад +12

    If only Irish dancing was still like this.....

    • @bunnybgood411
      @bunnybgood411 9 месяцев назад +1

      I know. I just searched for TRADITIONAL Irish dance and almost all of the ones that came up were Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and later. I enjoy that too but it's not traditional

    • @YTC9
      @YTC9 9 месяцев назад

      Simon's Cowell'd it. @@bunnybgood411

  • @jfk4153
    @jfk4153 2 месяца назад +1

    This is absolutely fabulous. My great grandfather started a dancing school off in Ennis in 1904. His name was Tommy Redmond. The dancing school was then taken over by my grandmother Mrs White from Connolly Villas. My mother was a champion dancer in Clare during the 40s and 50s - This man reminds me of her dancing. Her name is Maura White. What an excellent video. She also danced with the Tulla and Kilfernora. Great times!!

  • @tappenfeat
    @tappenfeat 3 года назад +32

    I'm an Irish Step teacher and this is so wonderful to see! I teach more this style. I could watch this again and again! 😍

  • @janefriel6895
    @janefriel6895 6 лет назад +8

    There is nothing more joyous than a male dancer like this gentleman.Hands by his side and as our dance master used to say " do on your left foot what you do on your right".RIP Master Kerrigan.

  • @EasyIrishDance
    @EasyIrishDance 11 лет назад +50

    Absolutely beautiful - rhythmic, exact timing with great emphasis on the sound and connection between music, musician and dancer. The best.

  • @colindominy
    @colindominy 15 лет назад +8

    Yes .. a beautiful, proper rhythm and pace to this fiddling (i.e. a touch s-l-o-w-e-r than might be otherwise), thus permitting the dancer to better demonstrate his skill .. par excellence !! Great posting !!

  • @irateofwatford
    @irateofwatford 4 года назад +7

    Remarkable. The top half of him appears to be watching TV about five miles away while his legs are judging all of the moves and making all the decisions.

  • @rosebud4387
    @rosebud4387 3 года назад +4

    Wonderful Irish dancing! don't ever stop this dancing!

  • @margmckay3257
    @margmckay3257 3 года назад +3

    Michael Flatley eat your heart out👏☘️ beautiful.

    • @clarebannerman
      @clarebannerman  3 года назад +2

      I'm sure he has watched this clip. I met Michael & his wife in a pub in Dublin a few years ago..Very nice couple no airs or graces.

    • @clarebannerman
      @clarebannerman  3 года назад +3

      I also recommend you watch Michael Tubridy & his wife Celine dancing The Blackbird in the old style..It's up here on YT..

  • @chrisarmstrong7
    @chrisarmstrong7 7 лет назад +29

    This is the way a hornpipe should be danced.. its the way I was taught..but could never master in a million years to this degree. Fine man John.. as you'd say years ago. thank god we have footage of this great.! I 'm lighting a candle for you clarebannerman for putting this out there,thank you,,take care x

    • @clarebannerman
      @clarebannerman  7 лет назад +3

      Go raibh maith agat...I need all the candles I can get...M

    • @franciestokes3195
      @franciestokes3195 4 года назад +1

      I say that man dancing is well dead now

    • @rincemor
      @rincemor 4 года назад +6

      @ Francie Stokes. No, he’s still alive. He’s an adjudicator and examiner with the Irish Dancing Commission. He was also a Doctor of Marine Biology I think based at University College Cork.

    • @243david7
      @243david7 3 года назад +1

      @@rincemor People looked older in those days, they really did

  • @donnaml8776
    @donnaml8776 3 года назад +7

    LOVE this!!! No taps just real dance. So beautiful!!! I wish more would dance without taps on their shoes. It has such a rich sound and is a dying art.

    • @moiraruff3292
      @moiraruff3292 Год назад +1

      Metal taps were & are not allowed by his organisation (CLRG) but we had extra pieces of leather, often with nails/tacks in, on the front of the sole to aid sound at that time. Later replaced by fibre glass or synthetic taps.

  • @MezzaTheFox
    @MezzaTheFox 3 года назад +4

    Fiddle sounds so incredible, singing like a nintingale!

  • @jordianme1441
    @jordianme1441 8 лет назад +27

    One of the most sweet and touching things I've seen ever :-)

  • @walterwhite3018
    @walterwhite3018 5 лет назад +3

    Absolutely incredible stuff. With the give in the stage I don't know how the dancer stayed with the rhythm... Incredible.

    • @weeardguy
      @weeardguy 4 года назад +1

      The more experienced you get in dancing, the easier you adapt to a stage's 'feel'. In competitions, many dancers grab the opportunity to dance a bit on the stage during a break (if permitted of course) to just get a feel of the stage, which can help them when they are up for their competition.
      And then you have understanding the rhythm. For me, dancing hornpipes was a real struggle in the beginning, although my teacher did say I understood the rhythm. But as long as I don't 'feel/understand' it, I'm lost. But once I get it right, I seem to be very good at it (one of the girls in class nearly melted in front of me once when my teacher was in doubt which new dance to teach me and she really recommended the Job of Journeywork (yes, I know, that's not a hornpipe but a traditional set, but it has a very hornpipey-feel to it)

  • @bobveinne2439
    @bobveinne2439 2 года назад +12

    Phenomenal that folks like this can use their feet as instruments, fellow sounds like clockwork :D

  • @eileennestor9274
    @eileennestor9274 10 лет назад +18

    Lovely music & lovely steps

  • @Dou8me
    @Dou8me 15 лет назад +19

    God, this is the REAL irish dance!

  • @juleswins3
    @juleswins3 3 года назад +3

    The fiddling and dancing are great but I’m amazed that “stage” didn’t collapse!

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake 2 года назад +2

    Flawless. The Liverpool hornpipe.

  • @InsatiableCuriosity
    @InsatiableCuriosity 13 лет назад +5

    It's so great to be able to watch such legends as Dr. John dancing in their heyday! I bet he could still pull out the same hornpipe no problem. :o)
    What a great collection of old Irish dance videos, thanks for sharing!

  • @RIVERKINGERIC
    @RIVERKINGERIC 13 лет назад +13

    I have this DVD; and am currently trying to learn these steps from watching him in this scene.
    It hasn't been easy; but I'm determined to get it and keep these steps alive!

    • @Wafaloo
      @Wafaloo 2 года назад

      What dvd is that?

  • @tomoleary7935
    @tomoleary7935 8 месяцев назад

    SUPREME PERFECTION !!! Simply Wonderful - despite the BOUNCING STAGE !!

  • @chrisarmstrong7
    @chrisarmstrong7 7 лет назад +8

    Even with your eyes closed..its one of the most satisfying sounds ever .Love this man and the fiddle player. Pure magic in my mind..give anything to be able to dance like that. What a dancer..what a beautiful fiddle player too.xxx

  • @olmmbill
    @olmmbill 10 лет назад +4

    Delightful! Exquisite dancing and wonderful fiddling.

    • @MarkBrendanHussey
      @MarkBrendanHussey 10 лет назад +1

      My, that is a strange custom. Who came up with the idea, "let's pretend we have no arms!" :-P Now I could be mistaken, but I believe that's me Uncle Leo playin'the fiddle.

  • @elenavanbc
    @elenavanbc 10 лет назад +39

    who could possibly vote down this gem!

    • @IrieFiery
      @IrieFiery 5 лет назад +2

      Probably Michael Flatley, who has perverted Irish step dancing beyond repair

    • @seandwyer1823
      @seandwyer1823 4 года назад +2

      Keyboard warriors aka idiots.....the internet is full of them and on every site.....Watched a very elderly gentleman playing a lovely tango on an ancient piano accordion, and 47 thumbed it down?!

    • @aileen694
      @aileen694 2 года назад +2

      Elena KB, only an eeejit would have voted down. Envy.

  • @pdubbs29able
    @pdubbs29able 11 лет назад +15

    Boy..those Cork men can dance.! John, you haven't changed a bit...

  • @jocelynquintana5997
    @jocelynquintana5997 6 лет назад +8

    No entiendo cómo es que a los chicos de ahora les parezca aburrido bailar éste tipo de música, es fantástico y fascinante

    • @basiab8487
      @basiab8487 Год назад

      Dzisiejszy taniec to "gimnastykowanie sie " przy muzyce.Tance - polamance !

    • @cookiecat4237
      @cookiecat4237 Год назад

      I love this type of music and dance! I have for as long as I can remember! Never could I find it boring!

  • @haydnfitzpatrick5996
    @haydnfitzpatrick5996 6 лет назад +2

    Wish I had been there with my Mum and Dad.

  • @wyllieohagan
    @wyllieohagan 17 лет назад +2

    Fantastic.
    Thank you for sharing this video online.
    You have a real treasure trove here.
    All the best.

  • @rona9715
    @rona9715 7 месяцев назад

    Superb, so skillful and graceful. Prefer this any day to modern Irish dancing. Thanks to wonderful musician & music too. All so enjoyable, thank you. 🤗

  • @RealVikingsWearKilts
    @RealVikingsWearKilts 16 лет назад +3

    Exquisite! This is the first tune I learned on the whistle and uilleann pipes.

  • @NancyEMcGill
    @NancyEMcGill 3 года назад +2

    He doesn't miss a beat!

  • @emilyb5307
    @emilyb5307 6 лет назад +3

    Wonderful! Great rhythm and clean sounds. Great dancing and wonderful playing.

  • @Fergussimo77
    @Fergussimo77 13 лет назад +4

    When I was learning to play hornpipes, my teacher gave me this video to watch. Then it all made sense :)

  • @7jannus
    @7jannus 4 года назад +2

    Wonderful!! Simplemente hermoso baile!!!

  • @gurlUBtripN
    @gurlUBtripN 14 лет назад +9

    this is so amazing. i love the traditional irish dancing, and this guy got EVERY SINGLE BEAT he was supposed to in that hornpipe!! which, trust me, is VERY hard to do. the rhythm gets so fast at times, it's easy to miss a beat. great video!

    • @irishdancer2753
      @irishdancer2753 Год назад

      Lovely dancing, the way it should be. Well done!!

  • @thissong4you
    @thissong4you 13 лет назад +4

    Too wonderful for words, Michael. I continue to learn so much from your amazing channel. Thank you.

  • @noelosullivan6117
    @noelosullivan6117 10 лет назад +9

    the fiddle player here is really great I love the Liverpool hornpipe.
    its like going back to my dancing days . when I done this hornpipe
    I always wanted the music faster . may be the steps did not have much
    in them . or I was a little ahead of my time . as I was know for my timing
    john has great timing and rhythm that's why I love this clip . but saying
    that he is not a great dancer I don't know what it is but timing and rhythm
    is great but there is a lot more needed to be a great dancer . I understand John Cullinane is a master of dance now and a history master on irish dance . I must
    get hold of one of his books . thank you for this post great to go back in time again

    • @noelosullivan6117
      @noelosullivan6117 10 лет назад

      watching this clip is great . john is a nice dancer but when you watch
      Donncha O Muimhneacháin all so from cork around the same time
      as john Cullinane the early 1960th donncha is a really great dancer
      you cant can't compare the two . and his dancing with celine hession
      is a master class. donncha rip was really ahead of his time . just watching
      him dance made me want to dance like him .

  • @saragobragh
    @saragobragh 16 лет назад +6

    Wow. If only my hornpipe was as precise and perfectly timed as this...Hah. That was amazing, and the poor stage looked like it was going to collapse in!

  • @taffysnotbet.7273
    @taffysnotbet.7273 5 лет назад +5

    I can not believe, How fast his feet are moving. I'm totally amazed by his skill and by the lovely music. An art nearly lost in time. So so sad.

  • @patrickhopkins7446
    @patrickhopkins7446 8 лет назад +5

    Awesome, The spend of his steps are amazing, a blur in fact.

  • @SpeegBJ
    @SpeegBJ 12 лет назад +6

    One of the reasons I'm proud to be one fourth completely Irish.

  • @ainelucie
    @ainelucie 16 лет назад +4

    Yep!
    Anyone interested in Irish dancing should also read Dr.John P. Cullinane's book:
    "Aspects of the history of irish Dancing"

  • @shteamroller
    @shteamroller 14 лет назад +2

    someone said there "the stage looks dangerous" thats obviously a comment from one who knows very little of its construction - if it didnt spring like it does it would be usleless to dance on......well done on your great videos Clarebannerman

  • @haimbenavraham1502
    @haimbenavraham1502 4 года назад +2

    I'm sure God enjoyed that. And blessed the Irish.

  • @acanessa
    @acanessa 15 лет назад +8

    Cool!, John was my examiner on my TCRG in 2004! he was great!

  • @noelosullivan6117
    @noelosullivan6117 10 лет назад +7

    great timing that's how it should be done . simple no mad steps just perfect
    thank you for another great post

  • @nadanalia3000
    @nadanalia3000 4 года назад +3

    Beautiful culture

  • @MissPickletoes
    @MissPickletoes 15 лет назад +2

    Wonderful......seems like now they focus on how fast you can dance rather than a focused and intricate set of steps..

  • @simongoddard9502
    @simongoddard9502 9 лет назад +2

    impressive - slick no messing with this guy and a little ripple of applause at the end.

  • @Catawba2
    @Catawba2 14 лет назад +3

    Perfect - I enjoyed this so much. Thank you.

  • @HEADSUPBERKELEY
    @HEADSUPBERKELEY 11 лет назад +4

    INCREDIBLY LOVELY THANKS

  • @johnpatrick6998
    @johnpatrick6998 2 года назад +2

    Absolute pleasure to watch real, authentic dancing instead of the Spanish type Riverdance nonsense.

  • @juliabarca4917
    @juliabarca4917 6 лет назад +2

    Simplemente fantástico!

  • @Cuchullain10
    @Cuchullain10 16 лет назад +2

    Great!
    Wish you all a Happy New Year!
    Michael,
    Vienna, Austria

  • @witheringi9492
    @witheringi9492 8 лет назад +30

    when men weren't afraid to dance

  • @arcangelgabril6285
    @arcangelgabril6285 7 лет назад +4

    excelente musica y danza

  • @shamrock4500
    @shamrock4500 13 лет назад +2

    thanks for sharing such a great video.

  • @pamelastory8737
    @pamelastory8737 2 года назад +1

    Love it to bits xx

  • @SuperCeol
    @SuperCeol 14 лет назад +1

    ha the tulla ceili band were in scariff last weekend still going strong. love all this old stuff its a gem.

  • @noelosullivan6117
    @noelosullivan6117 10 лет назад +4

    love the music

  • @taffysnotbet.7273
    @taffysnotbet.7273 6 лет назад +4

    I'm blown away by the speed of his feet. Some of the steps are a total blur, blink and you miss them. A true lost art indeed.

  • @pambradshaw4309
    @pambradshaw4309 9 лет назад +3

    I love to watch them dance but it makes my feet hurt LOLOL :) I my feet would
    be throbbing and burning. :)

  • @gabriellecusack4389
    @gabriellecusack4389 Год назад +1

    I learnt Irish dancing at the Catholic primary school hall on Saturdays in Melbourne, here in Australia around the era. This is the style we learnt and that I still love. The Riverdance era with the ultra high kicking and fake hair seems somewhat bizarre to me, although I admit is a marvellous spectacle .

  • @Fergussimo77
    @Fergussimo77 5 лет назад +6

    This really demonstrates of the underlying rhythm of a hornpipe. Session players should listen to the triplets the dancer is tapping out.

  • @leemleen2008
    @leemleen2008 3 года назад +3

    Красавчик. :)

  • @Crosbie100
    @Crosbie100 Месяц назад

    The best I ever seen

  • @designs4dance
    @designs4dance 3 года назад +1

    love

  • @seanlynch5924
    @seanlynch5924 6 лет назад +1

    Simply Great !

  • @xxblazingKiLLjoYxx
    @xxblazingKiLLjoYxx 12 лет назад +3

    Ahh I always love live music when I compete. Practicing with a CD player is nice, but I really appreciate the musicians (: haha

  • @JustFiddler
    @JustFiddler 4 года назад +2

    oh my god, it's uploaded 12 years ago...

  • @lur9017
    @lur9017 6 лет назад +1

    Wonderful!

  • @joannevargas9638
    @joannevargas9638 3 года назад +1

    Exquisite!

  • @JacobThomson1988
    @JacobThomson1988 9 месяцев назад

    I’d like to request a five hour long version of this video nonstop

  • @xenomorph3161
    @xenomorph3161 Год назад

    Very interesting , I first saw Michael flatley perform this same dance

  • @maureenmartin4730
    @maureenmartin4730 3 месяца назад

    Brilliant!!❤

  • @clarebannerman
    @clarebannerman  17 лет назад +15

    Can't be that bad. It's lasted forty five years!

  • @niraj_was_here
    @niraj_was_here 4 года назад +1

    I would like to attend live performance of this show

  • @VMA225
    @VMA225 10 лет назад +4

    Brilliant !!!

  • @irishdance19
    @irishdance19 13 лет назад +1

    @Djabenusiri I think we still completely focus on beats. They just focus also on everything else, like height, movement and crossing.

  • @COM70
    @COM70 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful recording. Beats anything modern I have seen to date.

  • @RIVERKINGERIC
    @RIVERKINGERIC 13 лет назад +1

    One of many tragedies of the world is that most camera men are not also dancers; so it never dawns on them to tarin the camera on the dancer, full-body, especially the feet; and nowhere else.

  • @2009vampiregirl
    @2009vampiregirl 13 лет назад +6

    Wow, it looks like the stage can every moment collapse...
    What fiddle is this? It sounds so familiar to me. Can anyone tell me? The title and from who's the original song, or who else plays this fiddle too?
    I love this music and this dance. GO IRISH!!!!!

  • @thatsdyn
    @thatsdyn 14 лет назад +2

    @clarebannerman this must have been the 44th year! lol

  • @OShaughnessyC
    @OShaughnessyC 17 лет назад +1

    Well said!

  • @odeamusic
    @odeamusic 13 лет назад +1

    @Djabenusiri ya know good point. Im not at all a dancer myself but your point is clear in this demonstration. its like a bodhran present... and a good one at that. :D

  • @that1guy92
    @that1guy92 13 лет назад +1

    I remember when I first saw this in HD. Lol

  • @Dhspat
    @Dhspat 7 лет назад +1

    Awesome

  • @dylanbob82
    @dylanbob82 16 лет назад +1

    ..gosh his feet have got a life off their own!

  • @claudi.o
    @claudi.o 6 лет назад +1

    ¡Bravo!