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Walkinstown Library
Go far enough east along Cromwellsfort Road and you reach Crumlin. At the junction, the Submarine Bar was seen as Walkinstown’s last outpost, though Crumlin and Kimmage might have said the same. Now defunct, I’ve slurped from silver cups there, the Sam Maguire and the League of Ireland trophy, courtesy of schoolfriends Kevin Moran and Gerry Ryan, of Dubs and Bohemians fame. The road name derives from Oliver Cromwell, who stalked the area between here and Drimnagh Castle back in the mid seventeenth century. Before gaining the art deco joys of the crossroads, one last turn at Moeran Road leads back to the Melodies.
First thing you see is Walkinstown Library, giving its name to this subsection of the area. Lured in by the music, you stay for the words. Situated on a green island on Percy French Road, the library opened in 1961. A third of the stock and premises was devoted to children. My first attempt to borrow was a giant atlas, which I horsed to the desk like a surfer hitting the wave. The librarian kindly, but firmly, pointed out the tag For Reference Only, explaining I could not take it home. Well, feck that for a game of cowboys, I thought. I would, in time, borrow many books, mostly a diet of Blyton, Biggles and Bunter, the very Brit
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The Mountains discover Mourne
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The Mountains of Mourne
The Story Behind The Song
Percy French was born in 1854, in Cloonyquin House, close to the small town of Tulsk, in Co. Roscommon, in the west of Ireland. He went to school in Derry, and then to Trinity College in Dublin, where he studied to be a civil engineer. He joined the Board of Works, which oversaw public building operations in Co. Cavan, as an inspector of drains. It was during this period that he began painting watercolours, an artistic endeavour that, for a time at least, he considered his true vocation. He sold his paintings in the Royal Hibernian Academy and, while he couldn’t earn a living from his art, in the long run his success as a songwriter and performer ensured that his work became sought-after. He has gained new fans over the past few decades for what are considered highly atmospheric landscapes.
However, it is primarily as a songwriter that he made his mark, both in Ireland and across the world. He wrote his first known song, ‘Abdul Abulbul Amir’ for what was termed a “smoking concert” – a men-only affair of a type that was popular in Victorian times – while he was still a student at Trinity College. It was intended as a parody, incorporating references to the chambermaids in the college in a discussion between two competing hero