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I have fond memories of the sing-songs in The Long Bar, Oliver Plunkett Hill, Fermoy in the cold winter of 1958 when I was 12 years old.

I have fond memories of the sing-songs in The Long Bar, Oliver Plunkett Hill, Fermoy in the cold winter of 1958 when I was 12 years old and collected and washed the glasses there etc. There was a stove in the middle of the floor, so we were all warm, the pipe leading to the chimney served as central heating. Its Imelda’s Bar today. May the Lord bless you with luck, Imelda!

Anyway, when the bar was full and the customers were a bit ‘oiled’, someone would set the ball rolling. John Fitzgerald (Wolfe Tone Park) who sold fish for a living, would sing 'Bless This House Oh Lord We Pray'. His brother Connie would sing 'Just A Song At Twilight When The Lights Are Low' and Paddy Barry (Wolfe Tone Park) would sing while in a trance, 'The Street Where You Live'.

Mick Hassett (St Bernard’s) would give us 'Bonnie Mary Of Argyll' and it brought the house down. Jackie Mac would contribute to the proceedings. He used to sing a Clancy Bros hit, 'The Holy Ground' where they all joined in 'and made the rafters roar'. Georgie O’Mahony (St Bernard’s) got terribly excited when someone would sing 'Boolavogue' - once I saw his cap fall off at the line 'King George of England'. John Fenton (Corrin) who was a haulier used to sing 'Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle' and this writer would attempt 'The Isle of Innisfree' and 'Liverpool Lou which was a big hit around that time.

'John L' (O’Sullivan, of St Bernard’s Place) would impersonate Jimmy O’Dea brilliantly and band leader Danny Lawrenson from Casement Row would sing 'I’m Shy Mary Ellen, I’m Shy' or some other comic song like that while Paddy McLellan (Grange) always sang 'This is my Island in the Sun'.

All good singers, all in tune - 'A Winters Tale' every Saturday night!

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