Author: ger mythen
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Phil & Dorrie – A Love Story
“Hello, how are ye?”, the young man said, perhaps a little awkwardly. “I’m staying next door, and they sent me in to ask if we could borrow a cup of sugar”. “Ye can of course – just hold on there a minute and I’ll get it for ye.” Mrs. Mythen replied. She went out to…
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Get Back To Work!
Approximately 8 weeks ago I finished my Cambridge CELTA course, allowing me to seek work as an ESL teacher (that’s English as Second Language). When I started looking for jobs, I was surprised at the number of private schools and colleges there are out there offering such courses to people. But of course, like everything…
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Tee & Haitches – a legendary pub Part 2 (September 2020 update)
Some months ago I wrote and told you all about my favourite pub back home in Waterford, which has been sadly closed for quite a few years, and I expressed a dim hope that it might reopen some day (you can read that piece here https://germythen.com/2020/03/11/tee-haitches-a-legendary-pub/) Imagine my delight a few weeks ago to see…
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School Days!
I haven’t written anything for a while, as I have been quite busy and am about to get considerably busier! I’ve wound back my online gig sessions a little because I have gone “back to school”, in a manner of speaking. It occurred to me quite some time ago that, as much as I enjoy…
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Another livestream special – Monday June 29th 2020 – 8.30pm Singapore Time
Sometime back in the early 2000s, I was in my brother’s house at home in Ireland, and he threw a CD (remember those things?!) over to me and said “Have you heard this guy?” The “this guy” in question was British singer-songwriter David Gray and the CD was his newly released “Lost Songs 95-98” album.…
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Mythen Sings Moore-2nd Edition!
One more day till the second instalment of my tribute to the music of Christy Moore. It will stream LIVE at 8.00pm Singapore time on Friday June 5th 2020. Selected excerpts can be viewed on Youtube later but if you’re a fan of Christy, you’ll need to tune in live for the whole set!
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My Heart’s Tonight In Ireland
Considering I am writing this at 9.45am on a Friday morning, that’s a bit of an odd title. It is actually the title of a song by Andy Irvine, in which he reminisces about his days touring the country playing music with his band at the time, Sweeney’s Men, in the vanguard of the huge…
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Mythen Sings Moore – 2nd Edition
Following some great feedback on the first Christy Moore tribute session I did last Wednesday, including messages from folks saying they wish they’d known about it. It seems a lot of people who would have tuned in live only saw my posts about it after the fact. So I’m doing it again – but this…
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A livestream special – Wednesday 20th May 2020 8pm Singapore time
A living Irish national treasure, Christy Moore needs little introduction to many of you. With a career spanning over 50 years from the release of his first album “Paddy On The Road” in 1969, he has earned himself a unique place in the pantheon of Irish music, both as a founding member of not one,…
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Islands in the (Live) Stream.
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the 24-hour news cycle spouts endless updates and statistics. Information is thrown at us incessantly in a cacophony of online soundbite noise, some of which is true, or at least as scientifically accurate as possible based on what is currently known to be true and factual, some is utter nonsense…
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