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Where we will be.....and you will too!
Tir Eoghain Irish Céilí dancers celebrate 33 years!
Dance lessons are every Monday evening, 7-9 pm ** No classes on December 26, 2011, May 28, 2012, September 3, December 24, 2012 and foul weather ** at the Yeates Studio, 4231 N. Interstate (map) Learn that jig step and have reel fun! Cost $3/session; 14 years and up no street shoes
Art in the Pearl 2009 Tír Eóghain Ceili Dancers of Portland, OR, at the Art in the Pearl, September 2009. Sam Keator, TMRF Current Director. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPjkYa_J0Dk
Folklife 2009
Tír Eóghain Ceili Dancers of Portland, OR, at the Northwest Folklife Festival, May 2009. Sam Keator, TMRF Current Director.
2010August27, RE: The Shanless Reel, note from the nephew of John Hughes:I have just found a clip on YOU TUBE of the group performing the SHANLESS REEL. I don't know if you are familiar with the origin of this dance. It was arranged by my uncle PETER HUGHES who along with my father JOHN HUGHES would be 'legends' in the Ceili Dancing circuit in Co. Tyrone and beyond. My father and Peter ( who are both alive and healthy, thank God ) were born and reared in the townland of Shanless ( proper spelling SHANLISS ) in Co.Tyrone and still live there to this day. They were from a large family of five boys and four girls and lived in a small 'white washed' cottage in the 'heart' of Shanliss. Their father owned a small vegetable shop and a small farm holding. I will try and get some photographs of Peter and my father and the townland of Shanliss... Shanliss is split in two by a road ( Shanliss Lower and Shanliss Upper ) and it is said that an old Irish Fort was built on the hill ( Upper ) from which you can see four of the six counties....my father owned the 'hill' and many a day I spent attending cattle and working the hay there...and indeed you can see four counties from it. I hope this gives you an insight to the origin of the dance and if you want anymore information please feel free to ask Thank you for your time
