Just a few steps off the Falls Road, there’s a mural that takes a bit of a different angle than the political and topical murals that fill the neighborhood. You’ll see the image of a man playing a fiddle, with several children listening, and Belfast’s Divis hills in the background. This is Sean McGuire. The Belfast born musician played with both ceili bands and classical orchestras and in the early part of the twentieth century took the sound of Irish traditional music to the rest of western Europe. Here, he’s playing to his grandchildren. The words in the mural are in Irish. Ceol gan teorainn, they say: music without borders.
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Sean Maguire Mural – Photo by Kerry Dexter
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Written by Kerry Dexter
Kerry has been following music through Celtic lands for more than twenty years. Her work on history, travel, and the arts appears in publications including National Geographic Traveler, Strings, and The Encyclopedia of Ireland and the Americas. Kerry’s Tips | Website
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