Lusk Black Raven Pipe Band!!!

clipped from www.blackravenpipeband.net Site Designed and Maintained By Damien and Keith Russell clipped from www.blackravenpipeband.net The Library Hall was used for practice and one evening during practice a certain Jack McNally happened to be passing complete with tin whistle and following an old Lusk tradition he looked in the Library window to see what was going on. The band were playing 'The wind that shakes the barley''. The pipes finished the tune but a tin whistle echo remained until Thomas Ashe ordered the tin whistle man to be caught. He was finally captured on the 'Green' He did not succeed in escaping from the band until the time of his death in 1965. The Black and Tans brought more than the their share of trouble and finally in November 1917 on the night John (Rover) McCann and Joe Sherlock were shot they raided the band room which was then in the Foresters’ Hall (the old Billiard Club). They took those instruments, which had not already been hidden, and also the Black Raven Flag. clipped from www.blackravenpipeband.net
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The John (Rover) McCann murdered by the 'Tans' was my Grand Uncle. The Foresters' Hall was later part of our home. The photo is on the band stand in front of the 'new' church on The Green where the male side of my family have lived for ever. My father was staff major as he could not play a note, just like me. The practice room in recent times was very close as I studied or tied to.

Thomas Ashe was also a band member. More later...