Tipperary Days

Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them,
Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare;
Fighting-fit and mirth-mad, music in the feet of them,
Swinging on to glory and the wrath out there.
Laughing by and chaffing by, frolic in the smiles of them,
On the road, the white road, all the afternoon;
Strangers in a strange land, miles and miles and miles of them,
Battle-bound and heart-high, and singing this tune:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go;
It's a long way to Tipperary,
And the sweetest girl I know.
Good-bye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square:
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

"Come, Yvonne and Juliette! Come, Mimi, and cheer for them!
Throw them flowers and kisses as they pass you by.
Aren't they the lovely lads! Haven't you a tear for them
Going out so gallantly to dare and die?
What is it they're singing so? Some high hymn of Motherland?
Some immortal chanson of their Faith and King?
'Marseillaise' or 'Brabanc,on', anthem of that other land,
Dears, let us remember it, that song they sing:

"C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
C'est un chemin long, c'est vrai;
C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
Et la belle fille qu'je connais.
Bonjour, Peekadeely!
Au revoir, Lestaire Squaire!
C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
Mais mon coeur 'ees zaire'."

The gallant old "Contemptibles"! There isn't much remains of them,
So full of fun and fitness, and a-singing in their pride;
For some are cold as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them,
And some are back in Blighty, and a-wishing they had died.
And yet it seems but yesterday, that great, glad sight of them,
Swinging on to battle as the sky grew black and black;
But oh their glee and glory, and the great, grim fight of them! --
Just whistle Tipperary and it all comes back:

It's a long way to Tipperary
(Which means "'ome" anywhere);
It's a long way to Tipperary
(And the things wot make you care).
Good-bye, Piccadilly
('Ow I 'opes my folks is well);
It's a long, long way to Tipperary --
('R! Ain't War just 'ell?)

Robert W Service

Rise On The Whistle The Somme Remix 2016

Patricia Walsh is a multi-media artist creating reflective and atmospheric sound works, video works and photography.   Selected video works by Patricia Walsh have been screened nationwide on the BBC's Big Screens network throughout the UK.   

She has curated a number of Audio Art events, including Circuit Bridges sound event at EDAU and at the Media Factory, Uclan, Preston.  Artists from the USA, Britain and Europe were brought together in a collaborative sound presentation which toured to New York, 2015.

Her sound piece Einen Augenblick was presented as part of the Harris Flights Project.  A forthcoming book, by Elaine Speight and Charles Quick, will detail all of the artists who have taken part in the, In Certain Places project over the last ten years. 

She is a member of Robert Voisey's Vox Novus 60x60 and also a member of  Soundnetwork.  

FlashBack, sound work, was selected as part of the 60x60 International Mix 2011 and was recently heard at The Sheldon, St Louis, Missouri.

DUST was selected as part of Sonic Vigil V Festival, St. Fin Barre Cathedral, Ireland in 2010 and it was also aired at Bureau Gallery, Manchester, 2011.

ShadowPlay appears on the Audio CD Soundtrack For A Mersey Tunnel by Alan Dunn in an edition of 433, February 2008. A limited edition compilation inspired by the 2'33" minutes spent under the River Mersey on the 433 bus, featuring new soundworks recorded in the Mersey Tunnels and their surrounds, Liverpool, UK. 

UNDERCOVER was seen and heard at the Galapagos Club, Brooklyn, New York 2008. Choreography by Pascal Rekoert.

The sound work Vanishing Act is included in Soundnetwork's 'Sound Report II MADEUP' CD, 2008, which was specially selected and curated by Daniel Barratt.

A recent photographic exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Shops was shown on an extended run at the Adelphi Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.