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One of the Armagh Rhymers’ masks, via The Bosky Man.<\/p><\/div>\n

At The Bosky Man<\/i>, Andy Letcher tells how playing a gig at the Ludlow Medieval Fair let him to meet an Irish band whose members perform wearing wicker masks, made by a 90-something-year-old Irish mask-maker who is the last of his kind.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s a pity because both invoke an odd, almost indescribable atavistic<\/b> feeling. It seems to me extremely important that we all should know that feeling first hand, that we should experience it at key moments in our lives and in the yearly round of winter, spring, summer, fall. For whatever else the feeling is, it’s the sense of being brought up sharply against\u00a0something Other<\/b>, and you never know, that\u00a0might just save us from ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree; in fact, I helped to write a book about that subject.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Bosky Man, Andy Letcher tells how playing a gig at the Ludlow Medieval Fair let him to meet an Irish band whose members perform wearing wicker masks, made by a 90-something-year-old Irish mask-maker who is the last of his kind. That’s a pity because both invoke an odd, almost indescribable atavistic feeling. 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