There was a dance quite often, yeah. There was different fiddlers - Joe Griffin was one and Angus Leslie MacLean *. They wouldn't have big orchestras then; might have somebody playing the organ with him or he might not. Didn't make any difference. Angus Leslie MacLean . He was, I think, one of the best fiddlers in the country at that time. He played loud and he played, oh, he played terrific. He had terrific time with his music. The Legion put on a dance there one night and I was at the door with Dave Bishop getting the tickets as they came in.... In the grand chain, Dave and I counted them coming round and there was 96 people on the floor. But Angus Leslie MacLean was playing the fiddle up on the stage and you could hear him above all the noise of all those feet on the floor. And there wasn't even an organ playing with him. And when he started to play the fiddle he'd pick your feet right off the floor. He was really good. True Blue No, I'm not ashamed, I vote Conservative. I polled my first vote when I was 17 years old. I was in the army and I voted Conservative and I never saw any reason to change my vote since. I've been working at the polls for 60-odd years. Oh yes, I'm very strong that way. I'm very set in my mind about it. A friend of mine asked me a year or two ago - he said he thought he'd come out as a candidate, a Liberal, and he asked if I'd vote for him. I said, "No, I wouldn't vote for you." He said, "You wouldn't?" I said, "No, I wouldn't vote for you.... I got too many sins to answer for when I leave this world and voting Liberal's not going to be one of them." Well now, I only said that on the spur of the moment, to more or less shut him up. But you know, I got thinking about it the next day and I actually believed that and I believe it yet. I'm that hardshelled a Conservative. I've been going to political meetings all my life. They were something.1 But after years went by I began to think we were only a bunch of suckers because I'd be at those meetings and the Conservatives and Liberals'd be there and they'd be tearing each other to pieces, they'd be calling all kinds of names, the worst enemies in the world. And...when the meeting was over you'd see them - Liberals and them - going arm in arm over [to the MacRae House ] - a hotel at that time - to spend the night. No doubt they 1. Until their demise in the 1950s, "joint meetings" - debates between all candidates - were a popular source of entertainment during election campaigns. ^ " " BELFAST PEOPLE