Anne Byrne had the classic ’show biz’ start to her singing career, appearing on stage at the age of three with her mother and father in amateur pantomime and musical shows. Her mother’s family, the Bradys, hail from Dun Laoghaire in Co. Dublin and were all extremely musical.
Her uncle, the famous Willie Brady, who in [...]
Maire Ni Scolai was born in Dublin and learned her Irish in the Ring Gaeltacht of Co Waterford. After she moved to Galway in the 1920s she organised classes in Irish singing and dancing with her sister Mona.
A very early broadcaster on Radio Eireann – or 2RN as it was then called – Maire Ni [...]
Ed Reavy was born in Barnagrove, Mudabawn, Co Cavan in 1898. He emigrated to the USA as a teenager with his family in 1912 and settled in the predominantly Irish area of Philadelphia known as Corktown. Barring visits home in 1922 and much later in 1969, he spent his life there until his death [...]
Former Stocktons Wing member Steve Cooney has married singer Sinead O’Connor. A notice posted on Sinead O’Connor’s website on July 22, 2010, reads: “We who run this site are very happy to announce the marriage of Steve Cooney and Sinéad O’Connor has taken place this morning.” Venue, legal or spiritual status [...]
The lyrics of the popular Dublin song published in the 18th century tell a different story.
The wit who dubbed the statue of Molly Malone in Dublin’s city centre “the tart with the cart” may not have been far off the mark.
A tiny 18th-century book has turned up in Hay-on-Wye containing the earliest [...]
Once avoided as unfashionable by the children of the rich in urban Ireland, Irish dancing is becoming an expensive pastime and the cost is rising, according to irishcentral.com
One New York mother, who travelled with her dancing daughter to the 2010 North American Irish Dancing Championships in Orlando, said the cost is now getting so large [...]
Irish wedding songs and tunes
Here is the selection at Ramblinghouse. Corn is what we feed to the chickens!
1. Eileen Aroon
A song from the old Gaelic order. Most apt sentiment. It was written by the Clare poet Cearbhall O Dálaigh (c.1590–1630) to woo his beloved, Eibhlin Caomhánach, daughter of a chieftain. It worked – they [...]
Great to see that the Larkin Hedge School has now got legs under it. Founded in 2009, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of SIPTU (formerly the ITGWU), the Larkin Hedge School is now planning its second year. Hopefully it will become an annual event, which, like the Clé Club, will seek [...]
Details of 2010 Willie Clancy Week in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare
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Corofin Tradidional Music Festival
Corofin
Co Clare
March 1 – 7
www.corofintradfest.com[googleMap name="Corofin"]Corofin, Co Clare[/googleMap]
Micho Russell Festival Weekend
Doolin, Co Clare
February 26 – 29
The 11th Gathering Festival
Killarney
February 24 – 28
http://www.thegathering.ie
Former Chieftains tin whistle player Sean Potts from Dublin has won a Lifetime Achievement Award in this year’s TG4 Traditional Music awards. Before helping to found The Chieftains in 1962 he was a member of Sean O Riada’s influential Ceoltoiri Cualann group.
He retired from The Chieftains in 1979. He has since served as chairman on [...]
Detailed Huffington Post interview with John Spillane, Cork singer
