This is the original group: Dominic, Nóra and Aodh.
The Group in the 1971 RTE Christmas show "Isteach leat"
(thanks to Pip Wilson for the burka and beards)
|
[YouTube videos at bottom of page] This is the original group: Dominic, Nóra and Aodh. |
|
|
The Group in the 1971 RTE Christmas show "Isteach leat" |
|
|
|
This was the series ÓRÓ which ran for six weeks, was presented by Liam Ó Murchú, at the time head of Irish language programming in RTÉ Television. The group were resident for six weeks, performing a newly composed song each week. You can see a slide show of the Group performing Teanga na nGael in this series. |
| This is the punk who undertook to fill the resident slot in ÓRÓ for six weeks when he had no new songs written! |
|
|
|
This is the woman who did the musical arranging for voices and the plethora of unconventional instruments used by the group. They had no percussion, for example, so a "tea-chest" was pressed into service among other things. A fiddle, tin whistle, mouthorgan and kazoo also made appearances. |
| This is the group rehearsing for their 1970s tour of Iraq which was cancelled in anticipation of the coup d'état by Saddam Hussein at the end of the decade. |
(thanks to Pip Wilson for the burka and beards) |
|
|
A later TV studio shot after Pól got facial. . |
| Nóra and Aodh in studio. |
|
  Kissinger an Rí (above) Play the track (below) |
|
|