Just found out Traditional Irish Music collector/legend Ciaran MacMathuna died this evening.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1211/macmathuna.html
RIP.
Very sad news.
I never missed his “Mo Cheol Tua” radio show on RTE every Sunday morning..
A warm and witty man who will be greatly missed.
Slan,
D.
We listened in bed every Sunday morning on medium wave, meaning you’d get fade-outs right at the interesting bits (which most of 'em were). He was rather fond of some cheesy poems but his gentle demeanour and penchant for the old and gentler stuff made it easy to forgive him that! He sounded like a lovely chap to me. I found I could play Lark in the Clear Air first time I tried after hearing it twice a Sunday for so many years!
Good to catch ya, by the way, Connor! 