Willie Clancy week: ‘Every shack, shed and síbín has a concertina player in it’
Whatever road you take to Miltown Malbay in early July, there’s music wafting through the air to greet you
Willie Clancy
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Fiddler Martin Hayes: ‘I come to the table with whatever little bit I managed to bring off the side of the mountain’
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Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinking
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Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
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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
Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation
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‘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
Festival Fit: Majestic scenery, cute hoors, Gaelic football, dance and song . . .
Mark Graham discovers all life on display in West Kerry
Sculpture of Willie Clancy unveiled
Hundreds in Miltown Malbay to see piper Liam O’Flynn unveil life-size bronze statue
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