‘Big’ Pat Ward is in his 70s and lives in Galway City and is a fine keeper of many songs and stories learned from his mother Bridgit and his father and his grandparents. He comes from a large family and lives with his with wife and daughter Briddy herself a fine singer. Songs Pat sings are versions of Jack Murphy / Trees they grow high / John Riley / She Moved through The Fair / William Scanlon/ Cliffs of Duneen / Back to Galway Bay (his own comedy song written when he was in jail for camping on the side of the road) She Comes From Connemara, fragments Little Ball Yarn and the great Spansal Hill
