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Thanks to Charles Madigan for his Father’s Day piece in the Tribune.
The Irish still do wakes and funerals the best. And the sessions last for hours.
I don’t know why it is that Catholic priests and churches always seem to get in the way of how we want to celebrate a loved one’s life.
I also think those Guild Women and Holy Name Society-types take themselves a bit too seriously.
Traditional Irish musicians bring the right sense of melancholy to such occasions.
I’m reminded of what the late Irish musician Joe Cooley once said:
Irish music is “the only music that brings people to their senses.”
I loved how all the Madigan family went bowling.
They sent their dad out right.
May God rest his soul.
