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MARGARET BARRY - - - MY LAGAN LOVE

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Uploaded by on Apr 3, 2008

Margaret Barry, voice & banjo,
croydon,march 10 1955.

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  • Her mother used to bottle for her,???? What does that mean plz

  • battle misspelt, looks like it !

    maybe mother done battle with local teens to protect her.

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  • What extreme passion. Several hundred years of struggle are simply flowing from this woman & yet it is so beautiful. How the feck can that be? This song has more guts, spunk, emotion & honesty than most of the top twenty sixties protest songs put together. Why? Dylan's Masters of War is a great song but it'll never pull the tears like this does because this lady has lived it. She is it. Dusty, Sinead, Charlotte - forget it. This is a forever real slice of Irish history - sláinte Maggie Barry xxx

  • A major part of history that shouldn't Be forgotten!

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  • Of course if the fly was gone, then probably some money had also flown. Then there would be trouble.

  • The bottler is the person who collects the money for the busker ( musician ). Is called a bottler because they would go around with the hat in one hand, in the other a bottle with a fly in it. The bottler had to keep his thumb on the bottle to stop the fly from escaping. Having only one hand free, made the money in the hat a lot safer for the busker, right! If Maggies mum used to bottle for her, then she was going around with the hat while Maggie played. This is ancient street musicians culture.

  • 'Bottling' is collecting the donations from the audience on behalf of a busker.

  • I think Margaret Barry is buried in Laurancetown which is a village about 5 miles from Banbridge, Co. Down.

  • meant going round with a hat!

  • To bottle is to collect money for a street entertainer (as in going round a hat around while entertainer is playing

  • Bottle means ,battle with local peoples[been kind].

  • MARGARET BARRY, THE MOST FAMOUS CORK MUSICAL LADY, NEVER HAD HER VOICE TRAINED. IF SHE HAD, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE SOUNDED AS LOVELY AS SHE DID, BLESS HER. AND I LOVE THE NATURAL VOICE OF EILEEN DONAGHY WHEN SHE SINGS THE LARK IN THE CLEAR AIR.

  • thers a bed for you in cloyne sir

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