This is Part 2 of “Killyleagh and Shirley” (People, Potential and Prosperity) a project supported by European PEACE IV… as part of “Growing Relations” series documentary filmed by Tommy Sands and Musicofwhathappenstv.com Participants includes Alfie Murray, Bertie Murphy, Orla Cairns, Leo Casement, Elizabeth Crilly, Nathaniel Crawford and Kath Dougherty.

Place names and architecture give an indication of a place with rich diversity. An area of wild beauty that has attracted much coming and going down the centuries … and coming back as well. Names like Killowen (Cill Abhainn), the church by the river… flowing a long time. The Vikings came in their ‘lang’ boats […]

Tommy Sands ‘walks the talk’ with Kilbroney Ramblers and writes the song as they break down the barriers, build up the bridges and doing what they love to do anyway…walking and talking together.” Make sure your foot has the right kind of boot, But what foot you dig with, we could not give a hoot, […]

Good Friends and Relations…a song and story of it. Covid19 has twenty twentied us, so far away from each other at a time when we needed and were needed by each other. As nature longed for the warm embrace and human touch it was social distancing that would become the only available gesture of reachable […]

Fr Brian Darcy, poetic, profound and with a great sense of humour, is probably one of the best known and respected priests in all of Ireland.  During his lifetime he has created a whole new clerical constituency by taking down the light from the high altar to the dimly lit dance halls and dressing rooms inspiring […]

Peace comes dropping slow,  Said the poet, And though, a quiet nights snow  Can quickly light the dawn  with a white flag, Unfurled, We know, that Old ice takes long to melt. And great wheels of the world Are spoked, by small hands,  Unspoken of, While the eyes of the great are Sometimes, someplace else. […]