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“One of the things about Irish music is… that one reel becomes another and another after that, and unlike the clear-edged definitions of songs, the music keeps linking, making this sound-map even as it travels it, so player and listener are taken away and time and space are defeated. You’re in an elsewhere. Something like that.

“Which, I suppose, is both my method and aim in telling this story too.”