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‘We don’t understand why Irish people are scared of this language,’ says one of 40 Cantonese speakers who completed Irish language course

Https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mvek33/bodhran.mp3 Galway Bay fm newsroom – US President Joe Biden has been invited to this year’s Connacht Fleadh – with a special bodhran designed by a city craftsman. The Bodhran was created by city native musician and craftsman Michael Vignoles, who’s a bodhran and Uilleann pipe maker. The inviational bodhran features an image of Joe […]

Druid comes from the Old Irish word druí meaning sorcerer. And that is how most people today think of the druids, as mysterious wizards enveloped in the world of magic and ritual. But there is much more to the history of druids than the misconceptions that have been promoted about them since ancient times.

Folks, with the news of Seamus Begley’s recent death I took time this past week to go back through his catalog and listen to some of his older work...

A multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and visual artist whose creative work expresses the very heart of Irish life can now another string to his bow.

Ahead of the release of their debut album Gloomerald, the duo talk their biggest inspirations, internet obsessions, and favourite conspiracy theories

TREASURES from the collections of Aberystwyth University are being showcased in a special book as part of the celebrations to mark the institution’s 150th anniversary as the first University College in Wales.

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up to the establishment of an independent Ireland—has long persisted in the national Irish memory, despite efforts to downplay or outright erase it from official discourse.

THIS Sunday sees the launch of a new book at Pairc an Esler in Newry, exploring the history and the links – or lack of – between the Gaelic languages across the Sea of Moyle.

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up to the establishment of an independent Ireland—has long persisted in the national Irish memory, despite efforts to downplay or outright erase it from official discourse.