Bob
Conroy & Dan Milner at The Brooklyn Bridge.
Hand-built, largely by Irish laborers and tall
ships seamen used to working at great heights, it
opened May 24th, 1891 and links Brooklyn to
Manhattan.
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Irish
Singing Clubs
Starting
with Dublin's Goilin Singers Club more than 20
years ago, singing clubs have reinvigorated
traditional song by bringing singers young and
old together in cameraderie.
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Old
Friends - Fine Singers
Friends we
love to sing with at festivals around the world
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Folk
Music, Folklore & Historical Societies
Learn more
about folk culture and history by joining a
society.
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Folk
Music Clubs
Great places
to exchange a song or tune.
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Museums
and Historic Sites
From sailing
ships to art galleries to tenement houses, these
places give us a glimpse into the past.
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South
Street Seaport Museum, New York
Merseyside
Maritime Museum, Liverpool
The
Dunbrody, Co. Wexford
National
Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Tenement
House Museum, New York
The
Museum of the City of New York
National
Maritime Museum, London
Ulster-American
Folk Park, Co. Tyronne
Cobh
Heritage Center, Co. Cork
The
National Trust, Britain & Northern Ireland
Adirondack
Museum, New York
Cold
Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, New York
Kendall
Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
Mystic
Seaport, Connecticut
Boston
National Historical Park
The
Schooner Ernestina, Massachusetts
Independence
Seaport Museum, Philadephia
Jamestown
Settlement, Virginia
The
Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien, San
Francisco
The
Liberty Ship John W. Brown, Baltimore
The
Mariners' Museum, Virginia
Martha's
Vineyard Historical Society
New
Bedford Whaling Museum
The
Cunard Liner Queen Mary, California
S.S.
United States, Philadelphia
Smithsonian Museum,
Washington DC
Waterloo
Battlefield
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Libraries
and Archives
Some places
to research music, culture and history either
on-line or in-person.
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Folk
Song Books
Great
traditional song collections can now be bought
easily via the internet.
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Newspapers
A quick read
of what's happened and what's happening.
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The
Irish Times, Dublin
The
Belfast Telegraph
The
Kerryman
The
New York Times
The
Boston Globe
The
Montana Standard
The
Irish Echo, New York
The
Irish Voice, New York
The
Irish Herald, San Francisco
The
Daily Telegraph, London
Daily
Post, Liverpool
Isle
of Man Examiner
The
Shetland Times, Lerwick
Stornoway
Gazette
The
Toronto Star
The
Halifax Herald
The
Telegram, Newfoundland
The
Press, Christchurch
South
China Morning Post, Hong Kong
The
Sydney Morning Herald
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Magazines
On-line and
in your mailbox.
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On-line
History Pages
Short
articles on interesting subjects.
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Folk
Songs On-line
Words &
music of singable folk songs.
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Miscellaneous
Websites
that brighten our rainy afternoons.
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Our
Travel Agent
Bob &
Dan have gotten courteous service and bargain
airfares from O'Connor Fairways Travel.
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Deoch
an Doras
Links
provided courtesy of John Barleycorn & Co.
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Milner
& Conroy's
Eye-Catching
Links
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| Here are a
few websites that have caught our eyes. Some we
use frequently, others we've just bookmarked for
the future. Send us e-mail to suggest an
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