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 [...]

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Though now out of favour among musicians and listeners, the melodeon has had a huge influence on the playing of Irish music. The one row melodeon gained popularity in Britain from 1850 onwards and was a cheap and efficient adaptation of earlier French and English designs. By the early 1900s nearly all melodeons played in [...]

THE harmonica, more popularly known as the mouth organ, got left behind in the Irish music revival of the late 1950s. In the session it lacked volume and created something of a rattling effect. However, it gained a new profile in 1994 when the mastery of Brendan Power gave the instrument a new prominence with [...]

By Ronan Nolan
THE bodhran evolved in the mid-20th century from the tambourine, which can be heard on some Irish music recordings dating back to the 1920s and viewed in a pre-Famine painting. However, in remote parts of the south-west, the “poor man’s tambourine” – made from farm implements and minus the cymbols – was in [...]

THE credit of recording the first Irish music on banjo goes to James Wheeler. With Edward Herborn accompanying him on the box, they made their first recordings in 1916 and 1917.
Mike Flanagan of the famous Flanagan Brothers played banjo. Born in Waterford in 1898, he started out playing the mandolin. His lively technique can be [...]

Nickey English writes that it is shaping into a fine campaign for Galway with a decent performance against Kilkenny followed up by beating Clare in Ennis and Cork