Mattie Lennon
lennonaspect@iol.ie

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|Articles and Songs |
|* CD Review/commentary: The Pilgrim |
|* Humour: Among the Wicklow Hills |
|* Humour: Nostradamus, Malachi and Me |
|* Humour: There's love, there's sex, |
|and there's the 46A |
|* Humour: Nothing Rhymes with Volvo |
|* Review of The Songs of Sean McCarthy |
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|* The Bog isn't a place, it's a feeling|
|* Band Review: You're Welcome to the |
|Rambling House |
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|* Song: John Carthy |
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|* Song: The Slopes of Sweet Cloonee |
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|* Song: Browe's Puckan |
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|* Song: The Hideout on the Rock |
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|* Song: The Last (Lamp) Post |
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|* Song: How I Stack Me Oul CDs |
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Mattie Lennon, is the host of *"Mattie Lennon's Ballad Hour"* on Radio Dublin
100FM every Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. He contributes songs and informative
articles to Cantaria. By way of introduction, he writes this about himself:

I was born in the middle of the last century at Kylebeg, Lacken, Blessington,
Co Wicklow. And as James Joyce said about Dublin "I never left" even though I
have spent the last 30 years in Dublin.

Songwriting started when I was 14 or 15. If anyone blamed me for anything in
the wrong I would "make a song about them". There weren't many false
accusations so I wasn't very prolific.

Nowadays I write the occasional humourous article and I compile and present
the occasional show on local radio (I have been on national radio a few times
also). The format of the show (The Story And The Song) is; I play four or five
Irish ballads having first told the story behind each one.

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