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Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open spaces and through crowded pubs and festivals that pulse with energy and life. This is the Ireland of fiddles, harps, and flutes, butterflies on bog roads, Country-and-Irish songs, Ulster Fries, storytelling, yarnspinning, and jigs and reels to the crack of dawn. As he travels through the North, Wilson gets beneath the surface to portray both the tragedy and comedy of everyday life inside the Protestant and Catholic communities. Aware of the polarized image that each side has of the other, he emphasizes the importance of finding common ground and asserting the middle against the extremes. Just as traditional Irish music is characterized by ornamentations and elaborations on a melodic theme, Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle is full of variations and wanderings on the theme of the trip itself. And just as traditional Irish musicians will follow a sad slow air with a lively foot-tapping reel, Wilson's mood ranges from the nostalgic and reflective to the irreverent and mischievous. If there is a lament in one ear, there is always a song in the other.
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Bubba Smith
reviewed Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle on May 20, 2018
Ireland
An enjoyable read that takes the author and reader in a roughly circular tour of Ireland - but most particularly the Trad music sessions. I have an interest in this myself (I play the fiddle) and enjoyed his (fanciful?) descriptions of the sessions the various pubs around the coast. He starts (and ends) in the North, but it was written a couple of years before the Good Friday Agreement, so (hopefully) his descriptions of the sectarian nature of the northern tribes has been overtaken by events - unless Brexit brings them back, of course.
Maybe not that useful as a travel guide - it's a bit vague and (now) a bit outdated - however, it is worth reading for the descriptions of the landscape and weather. There is a fine section on the West Coast that had me looking at the air and sea fares! I was hoping for a more detailed exploration of Dublin but I gather he was more or less 'passing through' on his way back to the north.
Worth reading and I am glad I did.
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