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Barney McKenna (The Dubliners) RIP

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  • #32
    1966
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭1966


    Ahh so sad - RIP.


  • #33
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP


  • #34
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Dublin Forum?

    International Forum. . .


  • #35
    Thatnastyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Thatnastyboy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whbpYwk680



    not only a banjo man, but a singer too, this song is one of my favourites, and this is my favourite rendition.

    RIP Barney,
    I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green.


  • #36
    midg23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭midg23


    Not many of them left now, RIP Barney


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  • #37
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    RIP. Only saw them in Croker the weekend before last and they seemed in good form.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HR9J3veDSI


  • #38
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    midg23 wrote: »
    Not many of them left now, RIP Barney

    They were the good old days.
    O'Donoghues,
    Fleadh ceoils,
    The Dubliners.


  • #39
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    midg23 wrote: »
    Not many of them left now, RIP Barney

    Just one.


  • #40
    AMHRASACH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭AMHRASACH


    ........Sonny Brogan, Barney's Uncle, his favourite greeting -"me ould son of Erin", gave Barney great encouragement in his early days. Sonny played box.


  • #41
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,392 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    This is very sad news. He looked very poorly at Christmas on 'for one night only', with Gay Byrne. I'm not surprised but I am saddened.


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  • #42
    mandrake04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    The man was Legend is his own time, and no doubt will continue to be.


  • #43
    BrianMcGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭BrianMcGee


    AMHRASACH wrote: »
    ........Sonny Brogan, Barney's Uncle, his favourite greeting -"me ould son of Erin", gave Barney great encouragement in his early days. Sonny played box.

    I don't think Sonny Brogan was Barney's uncle? He did teach Barney in his early years but.... uncle? Correct me if I'm wrong though !


  • #44
    AMHRASACH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭AMHRASACH


    ......If he wasn't his Uncle, he was as good as a Father. Was there an Uncle, Jim, played mandolin?


  • #45
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Great story told by John Sheehan on the Late Late tonight...

    Barney McKenna arrives in Australia for the first time in 1968 and is met at the airport by a friend of his from Donnycarney. "Jaysus, it's hot here" says Barney. "Wait until tomorrow, it's going to be 100 degrees in the shade" says the pal. "100 degrees in the shade?" replied Barney... "I'll be staying out of the shade so"


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