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Singer Helen Roche
Helen Roche sings at a session in Meany's pub, Mullagh, Co. Clare.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Street Session
Marcas Ó Murchú (flute), Antón Mac Gabhann (fiddle), Mick O'Connor (banjo), Áine Ní Chonail (fiddle) and Connie O'Connell (fiddle) at a street session in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Set dancing
Kay Moylan and Dan O'Connell - set dancers
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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Irish Traditional Music
Discover the colour and diversity of Irish Traditional Music in this feature article by Terry Moylan.
Courtesy Terry Moylan
Irish Traditional Music -
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Sliabh Notes
Photograph of Sliabh Notes a Cork band
Courtesy Matt Cranitch
Sliabh Notes -
Terry Moylan
Terry Moylan is archivist at Na Píobairí Uilleann.
© Na Píobairí Uilleann
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Terry Moylan -
The Ní Dhomhnaill Sisters
Tríona and Mairéad Ní Dhomhnaill singing together in Nell & Jimmy Gleeson's pub, Coore, Co. Clare.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Conor Byrne
Flute player - Conor Byrne
Courtesy Helmut Riedl
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Conor Byrne -
The Dalway Harp
Made in A.D 1621, by Donal O'Dermody of Kilkenny, for Sir John Fitz Edmund Fitzgerald of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
Copyright managed by the Library Council
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The -Four Star Trio-
The "Four Star Trio" (Con O'Driscoll, Pat Ahern and Johnny McCarthy) and Paul O'Shaughnessy
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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Concertina Students
Concertina students at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Music trio
Mick Tubridy, Tony Crehan and John Kelly playing at Willie Clancy's grave, Ballard graveyard
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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Music trio -
From one generation to the next
Photograph of Pat Cash and his son with Johnny Doran
Courtesy NPU Archive
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Ireland’s biodiversity is rich and varied
The Dingle Dolphin named Fungi, has become a firm favourite with locals and tourists. The young bottle-nosed dolphin has been around our shores since 1984.
Copyright Mike Brown
Ireland’s biodiversity is rich and varied -
It’s best not to create waste in the first place
The waste keeps piling up.
Copyright Environmental Protection Agency
It’s best not to create waste in the first place -
Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
A plan of Cork in 1545
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Dancing a half set
Dancing a half set in the late Paddy Hennessy's pub, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare (1992)
Copyright Tony Kearns
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There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare.
English Name: Burnet rose, Scotch rose Botanical Name (Latin): Rosa pimpinellifolia (R. spinosissima) Irish Name: Briúlán Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Very spiny, deciduous shrub, usually c. 0.5m tall; flowers solitary, white, cream or pink; hip black with persistent crown of sepals.
Carsten Krieger
There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare. -
In 2007, we created the weight of 428,000 double decker buses in waste
The image shows a bin on a street packed full of household and commerical waste.
In 2007, we created the weight of 428,000 double decker buses in waste -
Edward Bunting
Edward Bunting was one of the major collectors of Irish traditional music. He was commissioned to notate the music played at the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival, and continued to collect the 'Ancient Music of Ireland' for the rest of his life.
Image courtesy of Simon Chadwick and www.earlygaelicharp.info
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Éamonn Ceannt
A member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and later a founding member of the Irish Volunteers Éamonn Ceannt was a master of the uilleann pipes. He even put on a performance for Pope Pius X.
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Dancing in Gleeson's
Dancing in Nell & Jimmy Gleeson's Pub, Coore, Co. Clare, 2000.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Foghlaimaíonn Ó Cearúlláin an cláirseach
Thug Máire Bean Mhic Dhiarmada Rua cabhair do Ó Cearúlláin nuair a d’éirigh se dall. Chuir sí ar fáil ceachtanna cláirsigh, treoraí agus capall dó chun taisteal agus ceol a sheinm.
Courtesy Leabhar Breac, Indreabhán, Conamara
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Set Dancing in College Green
Aidan Vaughan and Mary Friel set dancing in College Green
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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set dancers
Irene Martin and Dan O'Connell - set dancers
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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set dancers -
Bodhrán
Unidentified bodhrán player at Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. The bodhrán is a single sided drum beaten with the knuckles or with a stick. It was included in the music of Seán Ó Riada in his ensembles in the 1960s.
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Turlough O Carolan at Nobber
The Turlough O'Carolan statue sculpted by Ann Meldon Hugh was unveiled at Nobber in 2003. The statue is cast in bronze and shows the harper seated at his instrument.
permission courtesy of the Nobber Harp Festival Committee
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fiddle player
Photo of Edel McWeeney - fiddle player
Courtesy Terry Moylan
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Paul O'Brien
Paul O'Brien(1763-1820) was an Irish scholar and priest from Moynalty in County Meath. He was the first professor of Irish in Maynooth college and was the author of A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language published in 1809. He was also a poet.
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The Image of Ireland
This plate appeared in John Derricke's anti Irish work "The Image of Ireland" published in 1581. It shows a traditional Irish feast with a harper playing for the host. Despite the strings of the harp being wrongly drawn, it does show the status of the harper in Irish society at the time.
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The Image of Ireland