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		<title>Barney McKenna and John Sheahan bring memories of Dubliners to Germany</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/11/mckenna-and-sheahan-bring-memories-flooding-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aided by screen photos, videos and recordings, Barney McKenna and John Sheahan were joined on the road in Germany by Dubliners past and present for a series of memorial concerts.
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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>
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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>Dublin City Ramblers team up with Legends of Southern Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/08/dublin-city-ramblers-team-up-with-legends-of-southern-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dublin City Ramblers are teaming  up with the Southern rock supergroup The Legends of Southern Rock to present a dual cultural concert &#8230;
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		<title>Brothers Christy and Luka stay in harmony</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/08/brothers-christy-and-luka-stay-in-harmony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/08/brothers-christy-and-luka-stay-in-harmony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brothers Christy Moore and Luka Bloom have inspired a nd guided each other through lives filled with music
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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>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Fear an Ti</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ramblinghouse.org/2009/07/frank-harte/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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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