Handel’s Messiah was the soundtrack to Christmas Day in our house
If a funeral mass is just a do-it-yourself liturgy that can be embellished with singing and dancing and celebrity spotting, then what significance does it have, by itself, at all?
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
Is Roisin Murphy in a stronger position because she apologised? No – she’s in a far weaker one
Irish Harps go back 1000 years
Powerful tribute
Handel’s Messiah was the soundtrack to Christmas Day in our house
Irish Harps go back 1000 years
FEATURED CD for Easter 2020 is the chart-topping album from Celi Dé, starting with this gorgeous piece written and performed for Palm Sunday by Trian Ó Riordan and Colm Mannion. www.celide.ie
My father once told me that when Seán Ó Riada died, people were left bereft. The nation had lost a champion of our Gaelic culture, at a tragically young age. Ó’Riada’s immense contribution to the revival and conservation of traditional music, seannós singing, and other forms of our ancient culture, was achieved in an astonishingly short period […]
Congratulations to Limerick, who did Cork-haters across the world a great service yesterday in demolishing the rebel county in Croke Park, in front of 40,000 fans. Thousands of people gathered in Dublin for the event. Thousands more gathered in pubs and other venues across both counties, perfectly legally. It was, while not quite a full […]
The annual traditional music school, Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, has been moved online for a second year in a row due to Covid restrictions but amongst the online classes, concerts and presentations on offer is a feature of special interest to singers, historians and anyone with a grá for Ireland’s freedom. Who Feared Not the […]