WITH fiddle bows resined, banjos tuned and bodhrans held aloft, the 46th Fleadh Ceoil na h-Eireann got under way last night. Armed with umbrellas, rain gear and wellingtons, tens of thousands of ...

A NEW music network teaching residency for people aged 60 and over is kicking off in Limerick. Making Music in ...

Via The Journal Of Music: Cork University Press has recently published Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely, a major new study of the instrument with portraits of renowned ...

Contrary to Seamus Ennis’ much-quoted admonition that the best way to play the bodhrán was with a penknife, this percussion instrument is a much-admired and prominent feature in many Irish traditional ...