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Aoife Ní Bhriain
Aoife Mairead O'Brien () is an Irish violinist from North Dublin. Her career has traversed numerous musical genres including classical, traditional, jazz and contemporary music. She has been the recipient of numerous awards in both the classical and traditional world, including a Gradam Ceoil TG4 Musical Collaboration Award for her work with the Goodman Trio, and a RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award for Best Folk Instrumentalist. Aoife has been described as "one of the most versatile musicians of her generation" and "an exceptionally talented and multifaceted violinist". Early life Aoife Ní Bhriain was born into a musical family in Bayside, a suburb of North Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Mick O'Brien, is an uilleann piper and schoolteacher from a well-known traditional Irish music family in Artane, Dublin. In 2023, he was awarded the highest accolade in traditional Irish music: the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Musician of the Year. Aoife's mother, Fidelma O'Brien, is a banjo player and music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayside, Dublin
Bayside () is a small residential suburb on the Northside (Dublin), northside of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, purpose-built from 1967 on lands previously part of Kilbarrack. It has a planned central service area with retail facilities and lies inshore of Bull Island. It absorbed a neighbouring development, Sutton Park, also on Kilbarrack lands adjacent to Baldoyle. Established in 1967 under Dublin Corporation, it was later moved to the jurisdiction of Fingal County Council. Location Bayside is located beside the sea, lying inshore of North Bull Island and Dublin Bay, and about 10 km north-east of the city centre. Built in the late 1960s and 1970s, it is situated between Kilbarrack Road in Kilbarrack, from which it was formed and Baldoyle, and lies near Sutton, Dublin, Sutton. The area lies within the civil parish of Kilbarrack and is made up of the townlands of Kilbarrack Upper and Kilbarrack Lower. Bayside falls within the List of Dublin postal districts, postal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |