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The Rough Guide To Irish Music (1996 Album)
''The Rough Guide to Irish Music'' is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996. The fourth release of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album covers both the Republic and The North, with an overall focus on tradition A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or ... and revival. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Track listing References 1996 compilation albums World Music Network Rough Guide albums {{1990s-compilation-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer, keyboard player, and composer, considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music. She is famed for her work with traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity, Touchstone, and Nightnoise. Early years Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill was raised in Kells, County Meath. Her paternal grandparents moved there from the Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht of Donegal in the 1930s. Tríona is from a prominent musical family. Her paternal aunt, Neillí, contributed nearly 300 folk songs to the folklore collection of University College Dublin. Together with her brother, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, younger sister Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, and multi-instrumentalist Dáithí Sproule, Ní Dhomhnaill formed the folk group, Skara Brae, in which she played the clavinet and sang. Skara Brae specialised in songs sung in the Irish language, many sourced from the Rann na Feirste area where their father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lúnasa (band)
Lúnasa is a traditional Irish music group, named after Lughnasadh, an ancient harvest festival. They tour and perform internationally, and have recorded a number of albums of both traditional and contemporary Irish instrumental music. History Lúnasa was founded in 1997 when Sean Smyth, John McSherry and Steve Cooney teamed up to tour Smyth's solo album, ''The Blue Fiddle''. They called in Mike McGoldrick, a friend of McSherry's, and toured as a four-piece. As the band was taking off, Cooney bowed out. In the meantime, Smyth was touring in Scandinavia with the rhythmical duo Donogh Hennessy and Trevor Hutchinson, and recruited them to join the band."Lúnasa The Merry Sisters of Fate" ''The Irish Music Review'', by Geoff Wallis, reprinted from FRoots Magazine. Calling themselves Lúnasa, they began performing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergal Scahill
Fergal or Feargal are Irish, male given names. They are anglicized forms of the name Fearghal.Mairéad Byrne, Irish Baby Names – 25 Apr 2005 The arts * Fergal Keane, OBE (born 1961), Irish writer and broadcaster *Feargal Sharkey (born 1958), former lead singer of The Undertones *Fergal Stapleton (born 1961), Irish contemporary artist Sports * Fergal Byron (born 1974), former Gaelic football player for Laois *Fergal Devitt (born 1981), Irish professional wrestler *Fergal Doherty (born 1981), Irish Gaelic footballer * Fergal Hartley (born 1973), Irish hurler *Fergal Healy (born 1977), Irish hurler *Feargal Logan (born 20th century), former Tyrone Gaelic footballer *Fergal McCormack (born 1974), Irish sportsperson *Fergal McCusker (born 1970), Gaelic footballer *Fergal O'Brien (born 1972), Irish professional snooker player *Fergal Ryan (born 1972), former Irish sportsperson Other *Fergal Aidne mac Artgaile (died 696), King of Connacht from the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne branch of the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Molloy
Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at nineteen. Considered one of the most brilliant Irish musicians, his style that adapts piping techniques to the flute has influenced many contemporary Irish flute players. During the 1970s, Molloy was a member of The Bothy Band and its successor, the re-founded Planxty. He joined The Chieftains in 1979, replacing Michael Tubridy. Over the course of his career, Molloy has worked with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin and Dónal Lunny. Molloy owns a pub on Bridge Street in Westport, County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brady
Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Strabane, Northern Ireland. His work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age. Initially popular for playing Irish traditional music in a duo with Andy Irvine and later with Tommy Peoples and Matt Molloy, he later turned to a more rock-inspired electric style with poignant political lyrics. Some of his most popular songs are: "Crazy Dreams", "Nothing but the Same Old Story", " The Island", "Night Hunting Time", "Steel Claw" and "Paradise Is Here". Early life Paul Joseph Brady was born in Belfast and raised in the small town of Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on the border with County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. His father Seán Brady and mother Mollie Brady née McElholm were school teachers. Brady was educated at Sion Mills Primary School, St. Columb's College, Derry and University College Dublin. He is prominently featured in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidan Coffey
Aidan Coffey is an Irish traditional accordionist from Co. Waterford (Ireland).The Rough Guide to Irish Music, Rough Guides He recorded with Irish traditional fiddle players Seamus Creagh and Frankie Gavin and with accompanists Mick Daly, Seán Ó Loingsigh, Alec Finn and Arty McGlynn and he was a member of the traditional band De Dannan De Dannan (originally ''Dé Danann'') is an Irish folk music group. It was formed 1975 by Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán) and Charlie Piggott (banjo) as a result of sessions in Hughes's ... from 1988 to 1995. Discography ;Albums *''The Corner House Set" *''Dublin to Donegal'' *''Island to Island with Seamus Creagh'' *''How the West was Won'' (De Dannan) *''Seamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey'' *''The Irish Drum'' (Colm Murphy) *''Ireland Treasures of Irish Music'' (Various) *''Irlande'' with Frankie Gavin and Arty McGlynn *''Half Set in Harlem'' with De Dannan *''Jacket of Batteries'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary McPartlan
Mary McPartlan (8 January 1955 – 6 April 2020) was a traditional Irish singer and musician as well as a music director and producer. Biography Mary McPartlan was born in 1955 in Drumkeeran, County Leitrim. She founded folk duo Calypso in the 1970s. McPartlan was also the founder of both the Galway singers club ''An Riabhóg'' and theater company ''Skehana''. She was also the administrator of Galway Youth Theatre. McPartlan worked as a lecturer for University College Galway. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to Lehman College in the City University of New York in 2013. She taught Creative Arts and Theatre. McPartlan also worked as an arts PR and consultant with her own company ''Mac P''. During the 1990s McPartlan worked with TG4 to develop the Traditional Irish Music awards, Gradam Ceoil. She worked as a producer and director of musical projects including TG4 music show Flosc, the Arts in Action programme at NUI Galway and the opening of Glór, the national Irish mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot McLaughlin
Diarmaid () is a masculine given name in the Irish language, which has historically been anglicized as Jeremiah or Jeremy, names with which it is etymologically unrelated. Earlier forms of the name include Diarmit and Diarmuit. Variations of the name include Diarmait and Diarmuid. Anglicised forms of the name include Dermody, Dermot (, ) and Dermod. Mac Diarmata, anglicised ''McDermott'' and similar, is the patronymic and surname derived from the personal name. The exact etymology of the name is debated. There is a possibility that the name is derived in part from ''dí'', which means "without"; and either from , which means "injunction", or , which means "envy".. The Irish name later spread to Scotland where in Scottish Gaelic the form of the name is ''Diarmad''; Anglicised forms of this name include ''Diarmid'' and ''Dermid''.. Diarmaid * Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird ( fl. 1670) Irish poet * Diarmaid Blake Gaelic footballer * Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) British church hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bean Pháidín
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world. Terminology The word "bean" and its Germanic cognates (e.g. German '' Bohne'') have existed in common use in West Germanic languages since before the 12th century, referring to broad beans, chickpeas, and other pod-borne seeds. This was long before the New World genus ''Phaseolus'' was known in Europe. After Columbian-era contact between Europe and the Americas, use of the word was extended to pod-borne seeds of ''Phaseolus'', such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus ''Vigna''. The term has long been applied generally to many other seeds of similar form, such as Old World soybeans, peas, other vetches, and lupins, and even to those with slighter resemblances, such as coffee beans, vanilla bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy O'Sullivan (musician)
Thomas Paul O'Sullivan (born 18 January 1995) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Brackley Town. A Wales youth international, he began his professional career with Cardiff City in 2012, making his debut in the League Cup in August 2012. He made his English Football League debut on loan at Port Vale in February 2015. After two loan spells at Newport County during the 2015–16 season, he signed for Colchester United in January 2017. He joined Torquay United on loan for the remainder of the 2017–18 season in January 2018. Having been released by Colchester, he signed with Hereford in October 2018. He spent just under two years with Hereford before making the move to Gloucester City in August 2020. After three seasons with Gloucester he moved on to Brackley Town. Club career Cardiff City Born in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, O'Sullivan progressed through the Academy at Cardiff City to sign his first professional contract in 2012. His made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Keenan
Paddy Keenan (born 30 January 1950) is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes who first gained fame as a founding member of The Bothy Band. Since that group's dissolution in the late 1970s, Keenan has released a number of solo and collaborative recordings, and continues to tour both as a soloist, and with singer/guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan. Biography The early years Paddy Keenan was born in Trim, County Meath in 1950 to John Keenan (an Irish Traveller) and Mary Bravender Keenan (of settled descent). Though the Keenan family abandoned the Traveling lifestyle early in Paddy's life, he spent much of his youth contending with discrimination, including regular physical confrontations. His father and grandfather both played the pipes, and his father spent many nights playing along with piper Johnny Doran. When he was about six years old, Keenan was introduced to the tin whistle by his brother Johnny (a notable Irish banjo player), and began playing the pipes around age nine. Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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