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Here at Artist in Ireland, we have been flooded with requests regarding the sound track of the YTube video on the Written Word Weekend

Proudly (and thankfully) we’ve  now got it avaible for you to listen to and purchase via the good folks at CDBaby.com

Cross yer fingers we’ll have another one of these little guys on the market before too long.

Speaking of guys… why not listen to the song “Guys “-track number 9

It’s funny, you’ll like it.

All the best from me and my army

(they’re right behind me.. just beyond that tree and over the hill.. well they’re having a tea right now-leave them to it, they work real hard)

always eileen

Written Word Weekend

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Its true , its’ true… I finally got the old Boy’s Boxing Club back!

Okay it’s never been mine to begin with BUT… about seven years ago myself and Clodagh O’Callaghan was working on the An Tostal parade where we had to represent the (at that time) 15 European Union countries with the National School kids and (of which there was 109 of them, I might add…) and we opened up this under-rated and under-used Boys Boxing Club . It belongs to the Parish and is on the same property as the first national school is,a place commonly known as Aras Paraig.

Clodagh and I workd our fingers to the bone and after the parade was over  an After- School/Creche took the building and renovated it and used it for a number of years. Well they, ( Bo Peep) have moved to Laird’s House and now I am using it to complete yet another An Tostal parade.

Its lovely to back in the old place. Its clean. It has water. Still smells a little mouldy but that okay!There it is.  Waiting for the little children to invade it. I thought I’d take this picture on the first day I was using the space, before all hell breaks lose!  Ah its lovely and clean. Doesn’t look like this now. But that alright… it’s what a studio is all about. A place to get messy and make stuff.     Here’s another pictures…..Cool eh! There is a staircase leading to a quiet, carpeted room with sofa and comfy chairs . Thats where this shot was taken.There is even a side door for quick get aways.

Right so…. we’re in the space almost everyday working like little demons as we’ prepare for the 2009 An Tostal parade with the additional theme of… get ready for it.. Christmas!!

Yippee

I’ll have some shots of our walking trees and prezzies, or people stocking and eleves a little later… but before I go, take a gander at the pages column and check out the new blurb on the Evening Writers Class in Carrick.. some good shots of a well kept Drumshanbo secret are there.

Okay.. Its after midnight  and I have the 3rd class coming to the studio at 9:30,,, got to go. Take care

all the best

thanks for clicking in

always

eileen

Written Word Weekend

July31st to August 3rd 2009 in Drumshanbo

A chance to speak

An opportunity to listen

A time to write

Natilia, Willie, Stephen and Dominc have decided to become tourists in their own county, so they are off to visit a few pubs that they have never been into before and for all in tense and purpose, will never be in again.  Happy trails to the lot of you and remember.. you’re in rebel country … don’t act like locals.
always eileen

Hello there and thank you for clicking on. Yes, to quote poet T.S.Eliot April is the cruelest month. A friend of mine passed away and left me feeling just a little lonely. Just a little sad. And  like a snail sensing danger, I crawled back into my shell and waited for the shadow to pass.

And it did.

I’d like to say hello to LIAM in 4th Class of the Drumshanbo National School who kept gently nugging me throughout April to get get back on the blog and write. Cheers Liam.

well now.. what else is new… I’ll tell ye.

I’m playing with a new band. Thats something new alright. Annie Perry, who is a fab fiddler living out Cootehall way and Larry Dolan  a fine guitar and mandolin and music teacher who lives out in Agrina and meself, have stacked out fists in a tower and decided to work on our music. As Larry said last night at band rehearsals “ Music is a gift. There are so many people who would love to be able to play and can’t. We  have the gift. Let’s keep making the most of  it and share it”

And viola as the say in Canada, now I’m in abrand new band. What are ye called eileen?  I’ll tell ya.. We’re called “The Darling Buds of May”

And we’re playing this Sunday night at the Watersplash Pub in Cootehall Co. Roscommon. It’s the Golden Oldies Club nite hosted by publican Paddy Reagan and with us is our very special friend and fantastic singer Mr Owen Reagan. Come on out . It starts at 9pm. Its an unplugged session so you can have the chat and there’ll be no worries about getting your eardrums split open by the loudspeakers.

That new.. what else?…..

Well didn’t we have a great Fleadh on the 2 weekends ago. We certainly did. Hats off to our crew and everyone who made the weekend such a success. Pity about the rain on Sunday- a big thanks to the Flower Market stall holders that came all the way from Amagh and from Mayo to sell their plants and to the local crafts people and gardeners and farmers who also braved the rain for the afternoon. Also thanks to Micheal the Crepe Homme and to MaireClare with her wonderful Monster Cafe-coffee and tea van. What a great addition to any festival or event.

I got lots of picture… lots and lots of picture BUT I also have just a little bit of memory left in the old computer and have to get that sorted before I can upload anything so here’s a lovely shot of… well I don’t know what until I check the library… give me a secondPretty good picture huh!

but lets have another for the those who don’t know Drumshanbo…

A Swan at Acres Lake….

What else eileen????? Tons… Hoards… lots of stuff… but I have to go… there was a CD launch at Flynn’s in Agrina  and I really wanted to make it on time AND I have to put the chicken in the oven before Declan the Cat gets at it, cause Saturday nite there’s a clothes swap in Cootehall and chicken would be a good thing to bring along so I have to do it now… but please return sometime soon. I will have some of my very short stories up to read and more pictures of the small country town and words about the next parade and the next puppet show I’m directing and the book I’m writing and the garden that have yet to really dig into ( my own)…  so… here’s a shot to take you away. My main man-Declan… Slán