Anybody else notice the word “sport” creeping into the Irish dancing vocabulary? “Irish dance is a great sport,” declares one teaching academy which  boasts several North American Irish Dancing Champions among its achievements. About a tenth of such dancing schools drop the word casually on their websites. Elsewhere a dancer [...]

Tionólfar Ómós do Sheán ‘Ac Dhonncha, sár-amhránaí ar an sean nós in Áth Eascrach 1ú agus 2ú Deireadh Fómhair 2011.
Rugadh Seán ‘Ac Dhonncha, Johnny Joe Pheaitsín, in Aird Thiar, i gCarna i gConamara ar an 2ú Deireach Fomhair 1919.  Ba iascaire a athair a bhí tugtha go mór ag an gceol agus [...]

Tiocfaidh amhránaithe is ceoltóirí ó Albain le chéile le hamhránaithe, ceoltóirí is rinceoirí na hÉireann ag féile nua i mBaile Átha Cliath, 26-28 Bealtaine, 2011.  Is é príomhaidhm Feis na nGael ná nasc a chruthú idir ceol is cultúr na hAlbain is na hÉirinn, tré amhránaithe is ceoltóirí Albanacha [...]

Sharon Shannon and a host of folk singers and musicians including Christy Moore have come out strongly against any proposal to export Irish greyhounds to China.
“I have four dogs myself and I adore them completely, but the unconditional love a dog gives you in return seems to be impossible to us humans,” says Sharon. “Greyhounds [...]