The Ulleann Pipes are real and the music that comes from these simple reeds and covered or uncovered finger-holes is haunting. Some of the pieces still claw at my soul. Here are YouTube titles, for those that want to hear such music for yourselves:
Davy Spillane - Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Uilleann Pipes.flv
I am asleep (Air) & The Clumsy Lover (Reel) Uilleann pipes Chris McMullan"The Gael" Uilleann Pipes Caleb Cox
Uilleann pipes - Chris McMullan - Sliabh Na Mban & The Bunch of Keys
Braveheart Theme by Eric Rigler
Uilleann Bagpipers (Gay McKeon, Emmett Gill, Amy Campbell) | LIVE at The Kennedy Center
Must see!! Best Off Uilleann-Pipes - Celtic Duelling
Titanic - Hymn to the sea Uilleann Pipes remember [Andzull]
"Pipes Solo - Lark in the Morning", Cillian Vallely & Alan Murray
Davy Spillane - Boolavogue (Buaile Mhaodhog)
Port na bPúcaí - Slow air on Fiddle and Uilleann Pipes
A Gift of a Thistle (Braveheart)
Outlawed Pipes
Uilleann piping
Uilleann Pipes and Bodhrán
Uilleann Pipes (Jigs) When sick is it tea you want & Paidin O'Raifeartaigh chris mcmullan
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This is a sex story. There's a lot of it here. For those who still want wall-to-wall ultra-graphic sex on every page, I ask that you get a life. For those who are easily offended because I didn't write exactly what you wanted to read, I'll say the same thing.
Plus, for those of you who will say this work is just a 'stroke' story (yes I know who you are, Anonymous and others), about all I can reply is that you have never had a long-term, married relationship with a 'darksome wench'. What I have written here is mild compared to the reality.
ANGIE 1
By TheKeith
I met my leased-wife-to-be while I was cleaning out my mom's apartment. It was 2010, just after the start of the Great Recession. The tasks of dealing with Mom had fallen to me, as I'd come out of a 'scorched-earth' divorce 2 years before and my two children—daughter, age 25 and son, age 29—were completely alienated from me.
Mom had died—not easily, nor quietly—about four weeks ago, having come back to her luxury apartment just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from her last hospital stay. She came near to eviction, after loudly screaming peevish stuff in a Neo-Victorian way, all day and much of the night, but suffered a massive stroke in mid-shriek and just passed. She was dead by the time the emergency folks got there.
Cremation, funeral and official paperwork took up the time.
So—not having the help of my children—I was left to clean out her apartment, filled to the brim with the junk of the last 20 years of living, after my Dad died. I had bric-a-brac, china, glass stuff, pictures ... all the detritus of an increasingly demented viewpoint.
Plus, Mom had been 'squirreling-away' food, shrieking, "The next Great Depression is right around the corner, we must save and save". I unearthed rotting lunch-meat slices from between dresses and clean linens and found half-cooked chicken drumsticks shoved into shoes. Cookies were stuffed into closets. Moldy bread slices lay under the bed and in drawers.
The place stank of rotting food.
There were prescription drugs—including powerful prescription pain-killers—all mixed in with the rotting food.
Mom, being increasingly terrified of 'burglars' and 'rapists,' had refused to make herself vulnerable by bathing. So she stunk of un-washed woman, as she huddled under a single 40-watt lightbulb and so did the whole apartment.
Sigh! It took about a week to air the apartment out, plus a professional cleaning team, lots of cleaning fluids and baking soda.
Day by day, I waded through clothes and stuff, plus trying to make sense of Mom's papers, where the important documents were intermixed with old envelopes and advertisements for 'live-longer through Ginko Root extract' flyers. Every single item had to be looked at, and even pried apart, to make sure she hadn't stuffed a spare $100 bill or a critical invoice between a picture and backing or into a 'treasured magazine'—"Just in case of another market crash."
By the way, I'm F. Scott McBlair, and I'm not going to tell you what the 'F' stands for. People name their kids all sorts of dumb, nasty things, thinking it's cute or funny. I remember a family near Galveston, Texas, name of Lear, who named their only daughter Crystal Shanda (Crystal Chandelier).
I heard of the two musicians, with the family name of Major, who named their son Caleb Sharp (C-Sharp Major).
How about the guy who's family name was Mann; they named him Alphonse Gurley Mann (spoken as 'A. Girly Man').