Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series highlights much of Leitrim’s built, natural and cultural heritage from the people who know most about it.
In our latest Memory Meitheals episodes, Fionnuala Maxwell will be speaking to Leitrim residents about the heritage of their local area and their memory’s of growing up and living in Leitrim
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series is an initiative of the Leitrim County Council Heritage Office and is part-funded by the Heritage Council.
Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
Musical Heritage
Contributors
Fionnuala Maxwell is a singer and teacher who has made it her mission to promote and recover Leitrim’s musical heritage. She finds the lyrics or music of often forgotten Leitrim songs in historical manuscripts or publications, and performs her own interpretations of them. In this episode she takes us through a song called ‘The Little Hills o’ Leitrim’ which she found in an old Irish-American newspaper.
Conor Ward is a fiddler living in Cootehall. He learned his craft in local céilí bands, where he was first introduced to the music of Leitrim. He has recently completed a masters on a musical manuscript found in the 1960s, which traces the fiddling tradition of Leitrim and Longford to one nineteenth century source: the style and teaching of Thomas ‘Blind’ Kiernan.