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Ciaran O’Driscoll has pleasant memories of time he spent in County Clare from visiting his parents at their home in Ballynacally, to his love of the concertina that brought him west from London to the Willie Clancy Summer School, where he attended the concertina weekend on many an occasion. It is his love of words and storytelling, and his interest in passing on the knowledge he has amassed to a younger generation, that is the mark of the man. “My mother and father lived in Ballynacally for about 20 years. My father thought Clare was the place to go because of the music,” he said. “He played an accordion but wasn’t very good at it but he’d practise every night. He would practise into one or two o’clock in the morning and used to drive my poor mother mad. And when I was in London I used to go over for the Willie Clancy Week with a gang of people …
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