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Dancing as Ecumenism |
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Robert - You mentioned the AOH hall, you see on our side there would have been Orange Halls and you see you daren’t go to them. That was nearly worse than dancing after twelve o’clock, would’ve been worse. So because of the way the facilities developed it encouraged separation all the time.
Philomena - That happened until the carnivals came in.
Robert - Until the central hall for the big bands, those dance halls that the gentleman mentioned earlier on, you know they took it out of the small halls and into these more commercial jobs and then people began to mix. And unfortunately, that was, that mixing was going very, very well, especially in the fifties until the troubles started first in the North and that then stopped altogether, altogether. If it hadn’t been for that, and now I’m not commenting on the rights and wrongs of the background to the troubles but it destroyed a form of ecumenism that was developing itself.
Ref: CPPH 137 Thompson & Smith ecumenism
Interviewer: Michael Finnegan, Connecting Peoples, Places & Heritage Project, 2007 - 2008
©Cavan & Fermanagh County Museums |
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Robert Thompson - Killesher Old Mill Club & Philomena Smith - Cavan Positive Age |
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CPPH 137 Thompson & Smith ecumenism.mp3
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