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I'm off to Drogheda to sing Messiah tomorrow. Then we sing it in Dublin on Wednesday and Thursday.

Oh to be in Irelnad,
And hear the angels sing!!

I wish you and the choir well.

Wish I could hear it.

Also Ran1

Oh to be in Irelnad,
And hear the angels sing!!

I wish you and the choir well.

Wish I could hear it.

Also Ran1

Hallelujah!

(Great misunderstandings of our time)
The first few times I heard it, I wondered why everyone was proclaiming their love of cheese. It turned out to be 'Oh we like *sheep*'

'E's not the Messiah, 'e's a very naughty boy!

B

One of Handel's more felicitous settings of English words:

All we like sheep
Have gone astra-a-a-ay
Have gone astra-a-a-ay
Have gone astra-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ay

The Drogheda Messiah went well. We've a "dress rehearsal" tomorrow, for a performance of Messiah in Dublin on Wednesday and Thursday. On Saturday we're singing in Limerick for the national classical music radio station's Christmas carols concert. Then it's going to be a bit less hectic, with only our own carols concert in the National Concert Hall on the following Friday.

Traveller in Time on the radio
"Do you have an URL for the radio station? "

Ah Ireland the land of my ansestry. I'd love to see the place.

But Handel Ain't Irish.

Unless me and Gnomon cobble up an entry on him to make him such of course.

You can get the classical music radio station at http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm and clicking on the Listen Here button.

(I'm not sure whether I can talk about this on a BBC website).

Talking about Radio Telefis Eiran on the BBC OOH I'm not too sure you know.

There's no ban on information surely? So long as you don't infringe copyright . . .

DD, are you planning to descend Handel from the Limerick Hanlys or the O'Hanlons of Ulster?

Frederic obviously comes from 'Fraoigh Doireach', heather of the forest.

I'll stick in in the O'Hanlon's they have a artistic dint to this day.

Ardal O'Hanlon
Dervla O'Hanlon to name a couple

My Irish teacher said Frederick was "fear dorcha", a dark man.

Georg sounds like a lifestyle web site.

Handel was as Irish as the English royal family!

When is the carol concert being broadcast?

"Handel was as Irish as the English royal family!" -- are English, I suppose you mean.

Funnily enough HRH the Queen counts Brian Boru among her ancestors (11th century High King of Ireland). By way of Robert the Bruce I think.