Here’s to the handkerchiefs, here’s to the shoes and here’s to the bonny green garters…

Morris dancing finds an unlikely home in this UTV news report. The Red Branch Morris formed in 1971 from the new University of Ulster in Coleraine. They began performing as a support act for the Chieftains, before going on to dance across Ireland, France and England. As life went on people relocated though members, as far flung as New Zealand, stayed in touch. Although they officially hung up their bells in 1992, the Red Branch Morris have come out of retirement on a growing number of occasion for boisterous reunions.

 

Digitised as part of Unlocking Film Heritage - This material is courtesy of the UTV Archive

Interviewee: Leigh

Rihan 

Dancers:

Peter Goodyear, Malcolm Rawlings, Brian Marriott, Leigh Rihan, Liam Whitelaw, Peter Bromley and Chris Hancock.

Kath Fearn

with flute.

Maypole

Maidens: Hazel, Jo, Caryl and co.

Sound: Des Holmes

• Britain on Film
• Red Branch Morris