On Christmas night 2005, on a ‘Late Session’ special, Peter Browne broadcast an in-depth interview he had conducted with Cordal fiddle player, Paddy Jones during the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival earlier that year. Because Paddy Jones received the O’Keeffe festival Dedication to the Music of Sliabh Luachra Award this year, Peter decided to rebroadcast…
The Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival is delighted to announce that the supremely talented artist Finn Harper will be attending this year’s festival in Castleisland. Originally from County Wexford but living in Limerick for the past nine years, Finn Harper is a young accomplished Irish musician with a BA in Irish Music and is a self-taught…
From Barrack Street to Sesame Street might just sum up the journey so far in the artistic life of Castleisland native, Mary Owens. To those who knew or know her it comes as no surprise to learn that she has worked as an artist on the set of the world famous children’s (of all ages)…
If there’s ever a time when colour penetrates our very soul it has to be during the Christmas season. How tirelessly long the dark winter would seem were it not for the beautiful explosion of colour that takes us over the hump into mid January. Back in the sixties when I was a child, little…
Local artist, Rachel Gallagher realised a long-held ambition recently when she graduated from art college Limerick School of Art and Design and she’s about to stage her first exhibition. Here, Rachel shares her thoughts on the realisation of that ambition and shows us a sample of her work. “For as long as can remember, I had…
People’s Art, Dublin is a visual feast. An open-air art exhibition held six weekends a year, from Friday to Sunday, on the railings around the beautiful St. Stephen’s Green. Dozens of artists, both amateur and established, travel from all over the country to display and sell their work. I have always wanted to experience exhibiting there,…
Excitement is mounting these days in traditional music circles in the locality and out beyond. It’s particularly so among the huge numbers of fiddle players and their music loving followers therein. The weekend here in the Castleisland and Scartaglin areas will see a gathering of fiddle players and their disciples the like of which was…
Saturday, May 17th. is World Fiddle Day. PJ Teahan and friends: Tom O’Connell, Mick Culloty and Con Moynihan are planning a special weekend of fiddle music in Castleisland and Scartaglin. The event will get under way on Friday evening at Browne’s Bar at 9-30pm. That’ll be used for turning-up, tuning-up, limbering up and lubricating up in…
