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Dates, venues, map with directions question box and links to Irish music festivals and summer schools. Click on link on top menu bar.
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Dress was neat but informal at this well attended ceili dance in the Athenaeum Hall, Tottenham Court Road, in 1902. The photo comes from from Living London by GR Sims, published in 1902 …
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Aided by screen photos, videos and recordings, Barney McKenna and John Sheahan were joined on the road in Germany by Dubliners past and present for a series of memorial concerts.
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Costume designer Jen Kelly claimed he had been “airbrushed out of history” before widthdrawing his €800,000 legal case against the Riverdance company in a Dublin court. He claimed his costumes had been used without his permission. Full story Irish Times
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Irish music sales – already hugely depressed as a result of illegal downloading – have hit a new low. Overall, album sales are down by 23.6 per cent on last year. Bands have been dropped from rosters, distributors and shops have shut their doors, record company staff are being laid off. Sunday Business P0st
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Liberty Hall hosts Larkin Hedge School
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Dervish say web CD launch attracted 30,000
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Programme for Willie Clancy Summer School, 2010
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Guide to North American Irish Festivals
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Great expectations for mother-to-be Julie Fowles
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Kansas city offers a full slate of entertainers
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Australia celebrates Celtic and bush culture with flair
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King Puck enthroned despite passport hiccup
This year’s King of Puck was given the...
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Irish flair and homegrown acts at fair in Minnesota
There will be plenty of green but no...
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Keltic Dreams inspires underprivileged in the Bronx
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The Festive Tradition
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Singers
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gaeilge
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Story of the Song
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Irish Life
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