Altan mark 25 years as a band on Febriary 17 in the British Midlands …

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 …

The appearance of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem on the Ed Sullivan TV show in 1961 was a defining moment in the modern story of Irish singing. In England and Scotland in the late 1950s the number of folk clubs was growing, the most influential being Ewan MacColl’s Singers Club in London.
At the beginning [...]

Dominic Behan (1938 – 1989)
Born into a republican working class family in Dublin, Dominic was a brother of writer Brendan Behan and step brother of Rory Furlong. As well as a singer and songwriter, he was a short story writer, novelist and playwright. He followed the family trade as a house painter before going to [...]

Slide will be at the Savannah Irish Festival in February