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7 2 25 20110510 25 Fresh wails from the pipes announced the wished-for Fox-Chase and with clapping of hands and stamping of feet the dance went on. (p.61 ff) ‘I believe many of them still think that clothes will come in useful, and that St. Peter is more likely to let in a soul wearing a decent dress and good boots than one who is just wrapped in a sheet. Do you remember Kennedy (the piper) said he would be buried in the cast-off priest’s clothes he wears, so that he’d “be let slip in as a priest when mebbe he’d be kept out as a mu- sician?” (p.168) – Submitted by Ian Ó Loinsigh ~ COMPETITION ~ PICTURE THAT! THE FLAX IN BLOOM From The Camden Breeze (David Bondy & Edwin Spring, London 1997) M ANY tunes have names that have little meaning for people nowadays. Who, for instance, has actually seen flax in bloom? Well, at the right can be seen a picture of some flax in bloom, with flowers of a delicate blue – a strikingly attractive sight, that’s well worth commemorating in the title of a tune. Readers are invited to submit photographs de- picting the title of an Irish tune. The most in- ventive and/or original will be printed in An Píobaire, and the sender can select a compli- mentary CD from our online shop.

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