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		<title>Des O&#8217;Halloran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAME came in his 60th year to singer and fiddle player Dessie  O&#8217;Halloran          of Inishboffin The year 2001 saw him travel from his  Atlantic island          home off the Galway/Mayo coast to perform in Europe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Barry</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/margaret-barry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ronan Nolan
THE raw, uncompromising voice of the street singer had to carry above  the noisy chatter of the fair or football crowd. Ballad singer Margaret  Barry rarely failed to gain attention with her gutsy voice, pronounced  Cork accent and simple banjo accompaniment.
She was born in Peter Street, Cork, in 1917, into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moya (Maire) Brennan</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/moya-maire-brennan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although born in Dublin, Moya (Máire) Brennan is as Donegal as they come. At the age of two she was brought back to Donegal by her father, Leo Brennan, a band leader, and mother, Babba, nee Duggan, a music teacher from Gweedore. Theirs was a very close-knit family in an Irish-speaking community and grandfather Hugh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Brady</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/paul-brady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1947 in Strabane, Co Tyrone. He was a member of R&#38;B group, the Kult, while a student in Dublin. He joined The Johnstons, renowned for their neat harmonies, and the group had enjoyed a number one hit with Ewan McColl&#8217;s The Travelling People. The Curragh of Kildare was another successful single.
In 1969 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karan Casey</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/karan-casey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGING was encouraged in the Casey family home in Ballyduff Lower in Co Waterford. Both Karen&#8217;s grandmothers sang. While at school she was involved in the GAA Scor na nOg competitions and then in Slogadh.
In 1987, after a year in Waterford Regional College, she went to University College, Dublin, to study music. Unhappy with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pecker Dunne</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/the-pecker-dunne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never met Bob Dylan but I sang with Pecker Dunne &#8211; Christy Moore
Pecker Dunne was born into a Wexford travelling family. He was actually born in a horse-drawn caravan in Castlebar, Co Mayo, on April 1, 1932. He tells us in the song Wexford that his father was a fiddle player and was known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Galway&#8217; Joe Dolan</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/galway-joe-dolan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/galway-joe-dolan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ronan Nolan
&#8220;I&#8217;m a vagabond from Eireann&#8217;s isle Sunburnt thumb stuck up in the air&#8221;
Singer, songwriter and artist Joe Dolan who died on January 7, 2008, was a founder member of Sweeney’s Men. The prefix ‘Galway&#8217; Joe Dolan was later applied for late night clarity to distinguish him from the showband singer Joe Dolan of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Harte</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/frank-harte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Harte was born on May 14, 1933, on the banks of the Liffey, at Chapelizod, where his family ran The Tap pub. His introduction to Irish singing came, he said, from a chance listening to an itinerant who was selling ballad sheets at a fair in Boyle. He became a great exponents of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christie Hennessy</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/christie-hennessy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/christie-hennessy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christie Hennessy was  born in Tralee, Co Kerry, in 1945, the youngest of nine children. His father, an electrician, played jazz on the accordion, his mother sang Irish traditional songs and they often hosted music sessions at their home on Saturday nights. When Christie was six his father died and he had an unsettled childhood. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronnie Drew</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/ronnie-drew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blessed with a voice like a bullfrog with a hangover, Ronnie Drew has been at the heart of Irish ballad singing for nearly half a century. Born in Dun Laoghaire in south Dublin  on September 16, 1934, his father was a carpenter and at first the family lived in a tenement but then moved to [...]]]></description>
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