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A place and time for ritual and pageantry
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A place and time for ritual and pageantry
The tribute to Percy French in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan. By Gerry O'Shea Every culture needs a place and time for masks and costumes, rituals a...
Distancing hasn’t slowed creativity
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Distancing hasn’t slowed creativity
Columnist Daniel Neely, with banjo, is among those performing at a Saturday afternoon session in Astoria, Queens, in August 2018. With social dista...
Looking to other revenue streams
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Looking to other revenue streams
Tune Supply. By Daniel Neely NEW YORK, March 15 -- We are living in interesting times. We, as a country, have a very bumpy ride in store for the fo...
For trio, no genre is off the table
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For trio, no genre is off the table
Tadhg Ó Meachair, left, Joanna Hyde and Dave Curley. By Colleen Taylor new international trio has designed their own iteration of transatlantic fol...
Spreading of the light in darkness
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Spreading of the light in darkness
Former television writer Felicity Hayes-McCoy is the author of the Finfarran books. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In an essay at the back...
Stories, Songs, Poetry help SAOL
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Stories, Songs, Poetry help SAOL
AW&A welcomes Ray Hegarty from the SAOL Project of Dublin. Clockwise from top left are Board Member John McDonagh, President Maria Deasy, Board Mem...
Lankum are audience hit in NYC
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Lankum are audience hit in NYC
Lankum pictured before a performance at Berlin on New York's Lower East Side in October. PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Daniel Neely Award-winning Dub...
Upholding mandate to entertain
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Upholding mandate to entertain
Turtle Bunbury's latest book is "Ireland's Forgotten Past." Page Turner / By Peter McDermott “The Night of the Big Wind,” which took place on Jan. ...
Galway makes the case for arts
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Galway makes the case for arts
Tommy Tiernan, right, and Mike McCormack in “Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody.” By Peter McDermott To sustain a living in the arts involves “risk and dange...
Reappraising John Redmond
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Reappraising John Redmond
James Doherty. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “The Liberal government of H.H. Asquith, comprised of talented and even brilliant politician...
Hurley, Turner back for SPD
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Hurley, Turner back for SPD
Joe Hurley in the audio recording studio working on the late Alphie McCourt's memoir, "The Soulswimmer." Two favorites are back on the Manhattan st...
Guinness is Good for You, It Really Is!
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Guinness is Good for You, It Really Is!
Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson In late 1759, Kildare-born Arthur Guinness decided to "try his luck in Dublin," where he took a 9,000-year...

 



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