Tag: Henry Glassie
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Willie Lunney’s Turning Point
I am intrigued by the idea of this man who, through his connection to the southwest Fermanagh landscape, epitomised toil, risk and innovation in a time of great industrial change a hundred and fifty years ago. All we know about Willie Lunney comes from a scrap of oral folk memory, but it’s enough to inform…
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All Over the Place
The phone call came in the wee hours. One of our volunteers had stumbled into a production office at the far end of the festival’s perimeter fence, at least an hour’s walk away. Distressed and anxious, we needed to escort her back to her tent. Chatting the following day about her misadventure, she explained that…