Singer, filmmaker David Hammond, 79
Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 4:57 pmOctober 5, 1928 - August 25, 2008
… Hammond was an original. But he was also an archetype. While so many of his co-religionists spent the 1960s and beyond engaged in open warfare with their Catholic and nationalist fellow countrymen, Hammond followed his own path, empathising with both communities but only ever taking the side of the combatants’ shared humanity. He loved Ireland and all its people — especially their song. But most of all he loved Ulster, that curious hybrid of gaelic culture, Scottish influence and English dominance. …
