Topic of the Day: in my CD player AND my DVD player:
The Bloody Irish! I just happened to come across it on PBS a couple of months ago, but I'd missed the first hour. I'd search Comcast's OnDemand and PBS's website every once in a while, and PBS finally made it available for purchase (although, I actually bought it from Amazon)! But it turns out that you get both the DVD, which is about an hour and 25 minutes, and the CD, which is only about 33 minutes long...what's that all about?? Anyway, it's mostly traditional Irish music. This is from the booklet:
Set in Dublin during the Easter rising of 1916 -- the event that set the match to the fire of Irish freedom and forged the Ireland of today -- The Bloody Irish! uses rousing tunes like "The Foggy Dew," "The Minstrel Boy," "The Rocky Road to Dublin" and "The Tricoloured Ribbon," to illustrate the mindset of those who fought in the rising -- the volunteer fighters, men and women, the squaddies of the British army -- and the Dublin civilians, who hunkered down and endured it with gallows humour.
