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Finn McHooligans Gigs
Saturday, July 8th at Lazios Coffee Bar
(7:30PM to 9:30PM)
On July 19th Victor is going to Romania for a few months to play with his romanian band Phobia. During this time expect solo events from Patrick
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SKIN
(The Finn McHooligans Parent Band)
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Who was Finn McCool?
Finn McCool (Anglicized spelling is Fionn Mac Cumhail) could be called the Irish King Arthur and is one of the most celebrated heroes of Irish mythology. Peter Berresford Ellis writes in his Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford University Press, 1992):
He received his education from the druid Finegas, who catches the Salmon of Knowledge and gives it to him to cook. Fionn burns himself while doing so and sucks his thumb, thus acquiring the knowledge... From then on there occurs a series of adventures involving hunting, fighting, sorcery, love, and passion. Fionn has many romances but it is with the goddess Sadb that he begets his famous son, Oisín (Ossian)... Accounts of Fionn's death vary... (one) version contains a typical Celtic motif; the tale concludes that Fionn is not dead but sleeping in a cave, waiting for the call to help Ireland in her hour of need.
The band Finn McHooligans is a cross between Finn McCool (Irish Hero) and Hooligans (Irish Hoodlums); the anti-heros of Irish culture.
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