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	<title>Ramblinghouse &#187; Other Stuff</title>
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		<title>An Poc ar Buile</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/05/an-poc-ar-buile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 20:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally recorded by Liam Devally, the song was made famous in the early 1960s when recorded by Sean O Se to an arrangement by Sean O Riada. From an original poem by Donal O Mullain in the early 20th century, the words have probably been amended (the reference to showjumping champion Eddie Macken in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Jig Gig returns to TG4</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/04/an-jig-gig-returns-to-tg4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TG4&#8217;s televised competiton for  dancers of all ages, disciplines and codes, An Jig Gig, is returning for another season. In a nail-biting final last December, Irish  Beats triumphed  over World Champion Clodagh Roper, Celtic Roots, and The Mark Donnellan Memorial  Team. The search for An Gig Jig Champion 2010 is now under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Pattern</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/03/history-of-the-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Pattern]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE Aenach or Assembly has its origin in pre-Christian Ireland. The earliest accounts relate to the Ard Fheis at Tara, also known as the Aenach, held at Samhann, the beginning of November. Later the assembly had a role in the inauguration of the Ui Neill kings, who ruled the northern part of Ireland. The Feiseanna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ride On&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/03/ride-on-the-story-behind-the-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This song was written by Jimmy McCarthy (b1956, Macroom, Co Cork) who also wrote No Frontiers for Mary Black. Other songs he penned include Missing You, Bright Blue Rose and Mystic Lipstick. It was the title track of Christy Moore&#8217;s 1984 album.
The author explained on Radio Eireann in February 2010 that he once worked as an apprentice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean nos dancer Emma O&#8217;Sullivan</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/02/sean-nos-dancer-emma-osullivan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean nos dancer Emma O’Sullivan hails from from Renvyle in Connemara. She took up sean nos dancing in 2005 while a business and marketing student at university in Galway and by 2009, at the age of 24, had won the All-Ireland Sean Nos Dancing title at Oireachtas na Samhna in Letterkenny.
She has danced in the United States, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TG4 honour ex-Chieftain Sean Potts</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/02/tg4-honour-ex-chieftain-sean-potts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2010/02/tg4-honour-ex-chieftain-sean-potts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Irish Music Extra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Chieftains tin whistle player Sean Potts from Dublin has won a Lifetime Achievement Award in this year&#8217;s TG4 Traditional Music awards. Before helping to found The Chieftains in 1962 he was a member of Sean O Riada&#8217;s influential Ceoltoiri Cualann group.
He retired from The Chieftains in 1979. He has since served as chairman on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The story of Celtic rock</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/the-story-of-celtic-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History of Celtic rock, or punk, from Fairport Convention to Horslips, Pogues, and Dropkick Murphys]]></description>
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		<title>Irish language paper Foinse returns from the dead</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/irish-language-paper-foinse-returns-from-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/irish-language-paper-foinse-returns-from-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foinse, which closed last June with the loss of 10 jobs, has returned, as an insert in the Irish Independent daily newspaper, every Wednesday, starting November 18. A disagreement over grants from its main funder, Foras na Gaeilge, and falling advertising revenue led to the closure.
The newly revitalised Irish language newspaper will bring a fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fields of Athenry</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/the-fields-of-athenry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[folk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has rang out at packed sports arena, been done to death by drunks at closing time,denounced as sectarian, balladed, rocked and punked.
Often mistaken as a folk song, The Fields of Athenry was actually written by Dublin songwriter Pete St John in the mid 1970s. It is set during the Great Famine which devestated Ireland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Irish sticking their Neck out</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/httpwww-irishpost-ietabid310itemid6655sticking-their-necks-out-for-music-aspx/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/httpwww-irishpost-ietabid310itemid6655sticking-their-necks-out-for-music-aspx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neck have a new album of songs based on the Granny link &#8230; Go to http://www.irishpost.ie/tabId/310/itemId/6655/Sticking-their-necks-out-for-music.aspx
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