Television review: This fascinating documentary from director Pat Collins is full of pride but also sadness
Thomas McCarthy’s beautifully mournful singing voice is the perfect vehicle for communicating the joy and pain experienced by thecommunity across the centuries. But in addition to his abilities as a singer, he is also a collector of songs, and in Songlines , directorThis fascinating documentary is full of pride but also sadness. In Drogheda, he meets siblings Trish and Martin Reilly.
Still as a travelogue is intrigues. “You sing – the voice comes out with the song,” says Kitty Cassidy in Waterford, who remembers inheriting her love of music from her father, the noted storyteller John Cassidy. Songs are “a way of reconnecting with you people,” explains Ellen McDonagh in Navan. Her family couldn’t read or write – instead, they “made up songs about their life events”.
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