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Séamus Ennis
Musician
Liam O’Flynn remembered as a ‘magical’ musician
Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told
Liam O’Flynn left ‘a perfect legacy for generations of musicians’
The Kildare-born musician began on the uilleann pipes under the great Leo Rowsome
Martin Hayes: ‘I’m a complete guerrilla performer from the side of a mountain’
Experimentation and evolution are essential to music, says Hayes, who doesn’t miss the days of career-long contracts with labels
Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird
You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home
Dublin trad bar O’Donoghue’s on song as profits soar
Newly-filed accounts show accumulated profits jumping from just €31,255 to €537,955
‘When Séamus Ennis played, it stood your hair on end’
An extract from a new book on the history of Irish uilleann pipers paints a picture of the inimitable, self-assured Dubliner
Cracking the code of the Irish midlands
Cork-born film-maker Pat Collins is peering into the nooks and crannies of Ireland's centre ground. “The midlands are, maybe, more conservative. But... it’s actually hard to make an interesting film about liberals,” he says
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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