The Fleadhs

Other nations marked May Day 1968 with the chant "Hooray, hooray! The First of May! Outdoor Sex begins today!" The Irish solution to an Irish problem was to roll up your sleeping bag and tell your parents you were going to the country for a weekend of traditional music. In the mid60s, crowds of thousands of young people flocked into Boyle, Enniscorthy, Clones, Ennis, for the annual fleadh cheoils run by Comhaltas Ceoiltoir i Eireann, for all-night marathons of music, dancing, and, if you were lucky. . .