The Beat on the Peat

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BEAT ON THE PEAT

It began with a dream…. and ended with the biggest

Irish Heritage spectacle ever seen in History.

When Paul Claffey Of Mid & North West Radio told listeners to

his daily programme that he’d never been to an Irish Bog,

the seeds for “Beat on the Peat 93” were sown.

Such enthusiasm, it was felt, deserved and needed to be

harnesed. Here was a perfect chance to promote the

Ireland of old, the style and talents of the West of Ireland

in the days of yore. The listeners demanded it and the

radio station was happy to oblige.

And so it was. An ambitious plan to bring an entire Irish

bog to the land of emigrants, New York, U.S.A.,

just one year later.

This slice of the West promoted all that’s good

in this part of the Country.

Thousands thronged to Yonkers Race Course on the weekend

of September 17th – 18th, 1994. They witnessed threshing,

ploughing, butter churning and turf cutting.

It was a weekend about the sterling work of volunteers,

about marvellous Irish singers, but most of all

about people having fun.

This, is their story…..