The story begins in Ballysallagh, a townland within the village of Doolin on Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast in County Clare, a place the family remembers as breathtakingly beautiful, with rolling green fields, stone walls, and music in the air. Patrick Joseph Byrnes was born there in 1902, the second of 14 children and the oldest son.
“It was at these gatherings that I was first exposed to the joy of the music and humor of storytellers and knew that I wanted to be part of that as much as possible,” he said.
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