Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: humor

  • All-Star Night (Part 3):
    Richard “Shag” Shaughnessy

    craic (/kræk/ krak) — n news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. — wikipedia.org Of all the 21st-century scops who frequent the storytelling nights at Riley’s Pour House, perhaps the the greatest practitioner of craic is Richard “Shag” Shaughnessy. Delivered in a folksy, conversational style, Shag’s stories brim with local flavor and history .…

  • All-Star Night:
    When Scops Come Out to Shine

    scop (skop)  — n (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel In addition to being an entertainer who composed and performed his own works, the scop served as a kind of historian and preserver of the oral tradition […].  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. If Riley’s Pour House is continuing the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon meed-hall by…