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Step Dancing to fiddle music below Spence's Mountain, east Mourne Mountains, 1874

Hans & Annie Donnan c.1900
Champion step dancer Hans Stephenson Donnan (1859 - 1900)

Dancing on Bangor Boat, 1906

Square Dancing, Bangor, 1963

Hans & Annie Donnan c.1900
Champion step dancer Hans Stephenson Donnan (1859 - 1900)
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Dancing Half Sets at Lambeg on the River Lagan, c.1930
Dancers are thought to include; Dorothy Beattie, Patricia Mulholland, Roy Lillie & Joe Stewart (gentleman in the top hat). Fiddlers thought to be Paddy O'Rafferty and his daughter

McElroy's Ceili, 1949

Clea Ball, 1900

Waringsford Orange Hall, 1920

McElroy's Ceili, 1949
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Greyabbey Village Hall, 2006. American students visit the weekly dancing class
Back row - US student, Philip Robinson, Andy Brown, US student, John Bailie, Phyllis Goodall, US student, Hammy Lawther, Betty Schofield, Betty Woods, Margaret Gibson, John Davidson, Jim Cuthbertson
Middle row - Rachel McAvoy, US students
Front row - two US students, Nigel Boullier (fiddle), Jackie Donnan (fiddle), Bob Traite
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