The skirl of the pipes. The Plantation

 Neither lilt nor melody, neither ream nor rhyme.

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"It doesn't matter whether it is the East,the North of the South,the rest of the Scots don't like the Gaels of the Western Isles. That's where bagpipe music comes from. That's where most of the hassle you're getting originally comes from, people who don't know who their real father is. They are people brought over here by the British Army and London Corporations against their will. Eventually,they'll go back but they will have to be put out by bucks like Mc Kiernan and Mulligan but it won't be in my lifetime. Take no hand,act or part in it either way but it will have to be done because that's how a family gets a bad name for itself by members drinking too much and singing in pubs. That's what is known as raising the rafters or rabblerousing and the people who you are mixing with are well known for not being able to hold their drink like all oul' bollockses. By that,I mean the Lynch brigade. They have to get taxis to get them home from the pub. The wise man walks home from the public house and minds his own business on the way back." (1983)