William & Mary C. (Donohoe) Lyons

 

Willam F . & Mary C. (Donohoe) Lyons

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Videos by BOB

  • The Wexford Carol & a Year in New England * Christmas 2012

    The Wexford Carol (Carúl Inis Córthaidh) 12th century Irish Carol and a Year in New England, with  Alison Krauss, singer * Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; Cristina Pato, bagpipes * Shane Shanahan, percussion;  Natalie MacMaster violin. PHOTOS by Dead River Fuel Co, Kennebunk, Maine 2012 Calendar.


  • Th' whole worl's in a terrible state o' chassis!  says Sean O'Casey & Sophocles 

     “Th’ whole worl’s in a terrible state   o’ chassis”. says Sean O'Casey.

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    ophocles-Oedipus at Colonus:

    ophocles’ 3rd Choral Ode

    The basic problem of human life........a Greek view of life in an Irish translation.


  • Nona Lyons: Handbook of Reflection & Reflective Practice. Launched 2010 at AERA, Denver & University College Cork, Ireland.

    HANDBOOK of Reflection & Reflective Inquiry, Nona Lyons, editor, with 40 international scholars * Brings together essential perspectives of researchers, practitioners and theoreticians * Presents a thorough overview of reflective inquiry in several professions including teacher education, medical education, social work education, and adult and business education.


  • Celtic Christmas: A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh

  • Slán Le Maigh - Bells of Shandon
    Slán Le Maigh - Bells of Shandon, 18th century. Performed by Paddy Homan with Dennis Cahill and Jimmy Keane.  CD: PADDY HOMAN
    www.paddyhoman.com
  • ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN by Seamus Heaney

    Anything Can Happen by Seamus Heaney (after 9/11),  with specially commissioned music, Across a clear blue sky by Ian Wilson for string quartet, radio and drumming toys - RTE Vanbrugh Quartet. 2009


  • DOUBLETAKE by Seamus Heaney "Hope & History Ryhme"

    from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney 

    >>Poem read by              Seamus Heaney

  • Scél lem dúib - 9th century Irish poem - Summers gone.

    Read by Seamus Heaney.   Music: In the bleak mid winter, John Fahey, Christmas Guitar.  


     This same poem, a delight to the ear, is read in IRISH with english translation here >>Scél lem dúib


     

  • A Guid New Year - Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns

  • James & Mary Donohoe - Iowa to South Dakota 1911 - Legend of O'Donohoe (Yeats)

    James & Mary Donohoe Family
    in Iowa & and South Dakota
    My grandparents, uncles, aunts and
    mother: Mary Donohoe Lyons (Mrs. William F.)


  •                  St. Patrick's Day
  •  DOLMEN in the BURREN  & Barbara Allen, song

    Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren, 4th century B.C.

    & Barbara Allen, Scottish song , 1661

  •  My Oedipus Complex by
    Frank O'Connor

    A Christmas remembrance of when father came home from the war, read by Cork Irish writer Frank O'Connor, which explains far better than Freud might have done. 
  •  My Drunkard by
    Frank O'Connor
    
    THE DRUNKARD, a classic Irish short story by Frank O'Connor, is the story of a young boy and his alcoholic father who has a tendency to fall-off-the-wagon when the circumstances are right, and this usually has catastrophic consequences for the young boy's family, symbolized by the memory of his mother having to go and pawn the kitchen clock.
  • Dylan Thomas reads: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES


    Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)reads his: A Child's Christmas in Wales, written for radio and recorded by him in New York in 1952. It is one of his most popular works along with Do not go gentle into that good night.
    
  • Eulogy: MARY DONOHOE LYONS  * Oct. 14, 1991

    Mary Donohoe Lyons 1898-1991, Yankton, South Dakota.   Eulogy Oct . 14, 1991, Sacred Heart Church, Yankton by Robert F. Lyons

Videos by BOB

 

 

IRELAND Changed

>>The ANTHEMS.......

 

Historic Rugby Match

 

Ireland vs.England, Croke Park, Dublin, Feb. 24, 2007

 

1st visit by English since 1920.



 

 

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>>>IRISH SHORT STORIES

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