Well now, folklore - conjecture - call it what you will, but this is a very interesting drum.Denis Morrow, drum maker and drummer of some repute, owns this drum. It is stored in his roof space at Orangefield Belfast and he tells me that it is there to stay. Denis will tell the story that the Fortwilliam Drum was at one time ‘Peg’ an Ancient Order of Hibernians lambeg drum and in days gone by allegedly stolen from the A.O.H. by person or persons unknown.
It was a very famous incident immortalised in a poem ‘Peg has changed her walking days from August till July’ – and so it goes on.
Whatever the true way of the drum, it is a great story and one that encapsulates a lot of the lambeg drumming tradition!
Thanks to Denis and Bobby for the use of the photo.
HMA
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