Thank you John Custy for recording & uploading this featurette. 'The Fitzys' were/are legends in Melbourne folk music sector. When I lived there 1983-88, they could be heard at Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (CCE) events like the Monthly Ceili at the Polish Club in the city centre, the Port Fairy Folk Festival or Koroit Irish Folk Festival in the Western Districts of Victoria, centered around Mickey Bourke's Hotel (established 1853). If the Fitzys were up the crowd turned out! More recently, they played at 'The Corkman Hotel' in Melbourne, but that historic, heritage hotel was torn down by an unscrupulous developer. Hup!
I knew the Fitzgeralds very well in Melbourne !Dan O'Connells The Celtic club ,Sean South Port Fairy festival, and Paddy O'Neill first brought me to Comhaltas.Johnny fitz and I he used to accompany me when I sang xxxx Sheila Delahunt ! I remember you all !KEEP THE FLAG FLYING !
Great to see your comment Sheila. Melbourne 1980's, Phillis McGrath/Australian Irish Welfare Bureau, CCE Ceili at the Polish Club, Port Fairy & Koroit Folk Festivals, what a great time it was! Hup!
Yea there was a Galway club in Sydney in 61 or 62 when I visited it was living in NYC at the time they played God save the Queen at that time I refused to stand to it being played they actually shook my hands So God Bless Australia !
Mainly (historically/traditionally) a Hiberno-Norman surname - Butlers of Tipperary and Fitzgeralds of Desmond are supposed to be descended from Norman adventurers who came over in the Norman Invasion of Strongbow I believe... but being common (I think?) surnames in those areas of SW Ireland... you would need a DNA test to really see if they are all family... or at least from the same paternal (father - son line). My Mom's father was an O'Dwyer and according to autosomal DNA results for me... I have Butlers and Fitzgeralds showing up in my cousin list match's ancestry - in particular the Butlers of Ormond (whom five O'Dwyer Chieftains married Butler women in the 1600s and 1700s... at least the documented marriages). That being said they fought just as hard for Ireland as the O'Dwyers, who according to tradition and the Irish Annals... had been in the area of Kilnamanagh and Tipperary since the 700 AD and were said to be descended from the Laigin of the East in Ireland. Bit on the O'Dwyers here: From the seventh century until the Cromwellian Conquest a thousand years later, the O'Dwyers were settled in the present Barony of Kilnamanagh, a territory of about 100 square miles lying in the centre of County Tipperary between Cashel and Emly in the South and Thurles and Killaloe in the North. The clan leaders occupied fortified castles in Dundrum, Killinure and Clonyhorpe. Beginning with the year 1100, for five generations the O'Dwyer Chiefs married daughters of O'Brien, Prince of Thomond (twice), O'Kennedy of Ormond (twice), O'Carroll of Ely (once). In about 1250 we find John O'Dwyer of Kilnamanagh marrying a daughter of de Burgo (Bourke), one of the early Norman conquerors. His son Anthony, in 1279, married Maria, daughter of Butler of the House of Ormond, the first of many alliances with the Ormond family. This probably led to the first Earl of Ormond, in the exercise of his Palatinate rights, creating William O'Dwyer, the son of Cornelius, Baron of Kilnamanagh, in 1329. This title, though not used in the State Papers, is attached by the Office of Arms to all subsequent Chiefs down to the seventeenth century. This William O'Dwyer married a daughter of Mac-William Burke of the House of Clanricarde. Dermot (Derby) O'Dwyer of Clonyhorpe, played a prominent part as Sheriff of Tipperary under the Earl of Ormond, in dealing with the final stages of the Desmond rebellion in his locality, and had a long struggle with the notorious Myler MacGrath, Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. He died in 1629 and was buried in Holy Cross cemetery in County Tipperary. After him the Chieftaincy passed to the family of his cousin from Dundrum.
We're delighted you came back to Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 again Thank you Joe and all the Fitzgerald family for your beautiful music
Thank you John Custy for recording & uploading this featurette. 'The Fitzys' were/are legends in Melbourne folk music sector. When I lived there 1983-88, they could be heard at Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (CCE) events like the Monthly Ceili at the Polish Club in the city centre, the Port Fairy Folk Festival or Koroit Irish Folk Festival in the Western Districts of Victoria, centered around Mickey Bourke's Hotel (established 1853). If the Fitzys were up the crowd turned out! More recently, they played at 'The Corkman Hotel' in Melbourne, but that historic, heritage hotel was torn down by an unscrupulous developer. Hup!
Fabulous playing -- thanks for this.
great stuff joe love listening to you and of course your brothers
Excellent playing
Oh my glory. Just gorgeous!
I knew the Fitzgeralds very well in Melbourne !Dan O'Connells The Celtic club ,Sean South Port Fairy festival, and Paddy O'Neill first brought me to Comhaltas.Johnny fitz and I he used to accompany me when I sang xxxx Sheila Delahunt ! I remember you all !KEEP THE FLAG FLYING !
Great to see your comment Sheila. Melbourne 1980's, Phillis McGrath/Australian Irish Welfare Bureau, CCE Ceili at the Polish Club, Port Fairy & Koroit Folk Festivals, what a great time it was! Hup!
very nice playing thank--nfld canada
Beautiful playing👍
I had the previlege of hearing Joe and friends in peppers i Feakle.last Sun. night.I am now back in Pennsylvania.Great stuff .
Great to hear you after so many years
One of the best on youtube. Fabulous!
Yea there was a Galway club in Sydney in 61 or 62 when I visited it was living in NYC at the time they played God save the Queen at that time I refused to stand to it being played they actually shook my hands So God Bless Australia !
Very good.
Joe a long time since I've turned in your as good as ever.🌎
Fantastic playing 👌👌☘️
Excellent player. Good set of tunes.
An absolute legend in Melbourne.
Great man now Fitzgerald top accordion player 👏👏👏👏👏
Met Joe and his brothers in Melbourne in 2012 had a few lovely tunes with Paddy as well. Liam Owens.
Beautiful Brilliant Performance Joe
Loves Joes style of playing, Up Bodyke and Caherhurley Cheers
East Clare Abu!
We'll done Joe 😊😊😊😊😊
Lovely box player.
Great Music, and Thanks.
We would like the name off this nice tune on during 8.25
wow!!! need i say more.
Solid player.
A solid performance..well played Joe.
Great stuff well done great style
Upyahboyyah!!! 😀
Joe great playing you never lost it up the banner*******************8
Well done Joe
Top player
O BOY how good was that.
As good as it gets @ least
Un real Joe
IS Fitzgerald AN iRISH NAME OR GERMANIC
Mainly (historically/traditionally) a Hiberno-Norman surname - Butlers of Tipperary and Fitzgeralds of Desmond are supposed to be descended from Norman adventurers who came over in the Norman Invasion of Strongbow I believe... but being common (I think?) surnames in those areas of SW Ireland... you would need a DNA test to really see if they are all family... or at least from the same paternal (father - son line).
My Mom's father was an O'Dwyer and according to autosomal DNA results for me... I have Butlers and Fitzgeralds showing up in my cousin list match's ancestry - in particular the Butlers of Ormond (whom five O'Dwyer Chieftains married Butler women in the 1600s and 1700s... at least the documented marriages). That being said they fought just as hard for Ireland as the O'Dwyers, who according to tradition and the Irish Annals... had been in the area of Kilnamanagh and Tipperary since the 700 AD and were said to be descended from the Laigin of the East in Ireland. Bit on the O'Dwyers here: From the seventh century until the Cromwellian Conquest a thousand years later, the O'Dwyers were settled in the present Barony of Kilnamanagh, a territory of about 100 square miles lying in the centre of County Tipperary between Cashel and Emly in the South and Thurles and Killaloe in the North. The clan leaders occupied fortified castles in Dundrum, Killinure and Clonyhorpe.
Beginning with the year 1100, for five generations the O'Dwyer Chiefs married daughters of O'Brien, Prince of Thomond (twice), O'Kennedy of Ormond (twice), O'Carroll of Ely (once). In about 1250 we find John O'Dwyer of Kilnamanagh marrying a daughter of de Burgo (Bourke), one of the early Norman conquerors. His son Anthony, in 1279, married Maria, daughter of Butler of the House of Ormond, the first of many alliances with the Ormond family.
This probably led to the first Earl of Ormond, in the exercise of his Palatinate rights, creating William O'Dwyer, the son of Cornelius, Baron of Kilnamanagh, in 1329. This title, though not used in the State Papers, is attached by the Office of Arms to all subsequent Chiefs down to the seventeenth century. This William O'Dwyer married a daughter of Mac-William Burke of the House of Clanricarde.
Dermot (Derby) O'Dwyer of Clonyhorpe, played a prominent part as Sheriff of Tipperary under the Earl of Ormond, in dealing with the final stages of the Desmond rebellion in his locality, and had a long struggle with the notorious Myler MacGrath, Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. He died in 1629 and was buried in Holy Cross cemetery in County Tipperary. After him the Chieftaincy passed to the family of his cousin from Dundrum.
by now... a VERY Irish name ;-).
Swahilian !!! 😀