{"id":21881,"date":"2022-08-07T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:49:58","slug":"episode-620-dedicated-to-barney-dwan-and-w-c-handy-episode-coming-is-result-of-readers-who-have-touched-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21881","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 620 DEDICATED TO BARNEY DWAN AND W.C. HANDY (EPISODE COMING IS RESULT OF READERS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME)"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 620   THANKS TO TRACEY AND JAMIE DINEEN\u2026.MEMORY OF BARNEY DWAN\u2026 AND ALSO DAN BOWYER SENT THIS PICTURE OF  W.C.HANDY<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
august 7, 2022<\/div>\n

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Da\u0144 Bowyer often takes the episodes a little deeper.  In this case<\/div>\n
he found a great photo of W.C. Handy with his \u2018Memphis Blues\u201d<\/div>\n
highlighted. (SEE EPISODE 619)<\/div>\n

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\"image.png\"<\/div>\n

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W.C. HANDY (AB0VE)<\/div>\n

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BARNEY DWAN (BELOW)<\/div>\n

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\u201cWHAT is that huge thing under our boat, Barney?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBasking shark\u2026harmless.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cmust be 20 feet long\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI think it wants these mackerel, master Skeoch\u201d<\/div>\n
(Why does Barney keep calling  me Master Skeoch?)<\/div>\n

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I also received word from Tracey and Jamie Dineen that their grandmaster<\/div>\n
Barney Dwan had passed away.  Barney was my key man in Ireland<\/div>\n
way back in 1960 when we became part of  a team considering the<\/div>\n
reopening of a 19th century copper mine near the village of Bunmahon.<\/div>\n

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Barney led me on some great adventures.   Just the kind that 22 year old<\/div>\n
boys\/men love.   Before arriving in Bunmahon I saw the movie The Quiet Man<\/div>\n
at a theatre in Dublin.  I recommend readers try and see the movie<\/div>\n
as i write my memorial to Barney Dwan who I called Bandy because<\/div>\n
the Irish spoken on the south  coast did no seem to use the later \u2018\u201cr\u201d,<\/div>\n
Every time I asked Barney a question the whole team of ten local<\/div>\n
Irish men burst into laughter.<\/div>\n

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Note:<\/div>\n
The strangest thing has happened as a result of writing my Irish episodes.<\/div>\n
People have sent me email letters expressING their joy in remembering<\/div>\n
that magical summer of 1960.  Some will not understand how<\/div>\n
that is possible.  I think you need to be Irish to fully appreciate<\/div>\n
what happened that summer.  <\/div>\n

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So I will be writing my memories of a great young Irishman<\/div>\n
in the next episode.  BARNEY DWAN.  Some of  the stories<\/div>\n
were part of previous episodes but they are worth repeating<\/div>\n
because Barney made them happen.<\/div>\n

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Hope you can come along for the ride.<\/div>\n

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alan <\/div>\n

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EPISODE 620   THANKS TO TRACEY AND JAMIE DINEEN\u2026.MEMORY OF BARNEY DWAN\u2026 AND ALSO DAN BOWYER SENT THIS PICTURE OF  W.C.HANDY alan skeoch august 7, 2022 Da\u0144 Bowyer often takes the episodes a little deeper.  In this case he found a great photo of W.C. Handy with his \u2018Memphis Blues\u201d highlighted. (SEE EPISODE 619) W.C. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}