[4qd-bannvalley] Music & entertainment, 18th & 19th centuries

[4qd-bannvalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alison Causton)]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 06:13  pm, <pok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> 'Ordinance Survey Memoirs Co Londonderry VIII Vol 27 which
> covers the Kilrea etc areas has a heading Amusements on page
> 117.
> " The custom of singing in summer at the River Bann continues
> in this parish. The Catholics are still in the habit of singing at
> their funerals. Instead of the keeny they use psalms and
> sometimes instrumental music such as clarinets.
> Drunkenness and dram-drinking prevails to a ruinous extent
> among all. There is no distinct temperance society as yet
> belonging to the parish -----"
>
> However (page 114) card playing, dice playing, cock fighting
> and all nocturnal amusements are strictly prohibited.
> Lots more interesting bits if you trawl through the book.
> Pauline O'Keeffe

Hi, Pauline ... I had forgotten those paragraphs from the OS Memoirs:  
thanks for the reminder ;-) , and it is a great little book.

"The custom of singing in summer at the River Bann continues in this 
parish."
	What songs?  What we need is a musical historian or historical 
musicologist!

Cheers,
Alison