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Irish Music

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2026-06-10 12:36:18 UTC

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Oops, I missed the tag!
On my list this week I have The Cottage in the Grove (Crosses of Annagh), Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrell and The Merry Sisters of Fate 🎶

2026-04-05 17:45:01 UTC

Matt Molloy plays the slow air, Easter Snow.
The name of the tune turns out to have nothing to do with Easter at all, but is a linguistic corruption of the Roscommon placename Díseart Nuadhan (St. Nuadha's Hermitage).
The Gaelic name was anglicized to Estersnowe, and later romanticized to "Easter Snow".
Still a beautiful tune for this Easter Sunday 🌼💛
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2026-03-17 19:12:47 UTC

What does the well-known hymn Be Thou My Vision have to do with St. Patrick?
Well, the lyrics are set to an Irish folk tune named Slane, after the Hill of Slane in Co Meath, where St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire, a symbol of the resurrection, in defiance the pagan High King Laoghaire.
The English lyrics are a translation of an Old Irish poem from the 6th century, 'Rop tú mo baile'
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate ☘️💚
#Irishmusic #musicstr #stpatricksday
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2026-03-16 20:12:48 UTC

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Another good'un from Dolores
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2026-03-16 19:59:04 UTC

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I'm saddened to hear of the passing of Dolores Keane today.
She had one of the most beautiful voices in Irish music and will be dearly missed.
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2026-03-08 18:06:49 UTC

There's naught but care on every hand
In every hour that passes, oh
What signifies the life of man
If it were not for the lassies, oh
Green grow the rushes, oh
Green grow the rushes, oh
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent
Are spent among the lassies, oh 💚🎶
#musicstr #HappyWomensDay
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2026-03-08 17:19:29 UTC

Happy Women's Day to all the wonderful women in Irish music, of which there are too many to list
But who better to represent them than the talented Cherish the Ladies 💚🎶
#musicstr #IrishMusic #HappyWomensDay
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2026-01-27 09:11:43 UTC

Sí Bheag Sí Mhór is a perfect match for the uilleann pipes ❤️
The traditional waltz is said to be the first ever tune written by Turlough O'Carolan, composed around 1690
Masterfully played here by Darragh Ó Héiligh
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2026-01-25 10:22:55 UTC

GM and have a blessed Sunday
The late Brendan McGlinchey from Armagh was an influential fiddler and composer in the Irish trad scene. He has written several popular tunes such as Splendid Isolation, The Floating Crowbar, and Sweeney's Buttermilk
Here he plays Splendid Isolation, first as a slow air and then as a reel, so do keep listening until the end 🎻🎶
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2026-01-23 16:54:03 UTC

Happy Friday!
Pólca 4's energetic brand of Irish trad is a perfect match for dancers. Their shows get the whole room dancing or clapping along, which I got to experience for myself when I supported them in September last year. Most fun I've had in a long time 😄
Here they are with two reels: The Concertina / Trip to Cullenstown (video from 2017)
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2026-01-20 08:33:33 UTC

GM!
Today I'm posting my all-time favourite fiddler, Kevin Burke, playing Farewell to Erin. No band needed, the fiddle does all the talking 😌
#irishmusic #musicstr #fiddle
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2026-01-17 14:09:41 UTC

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A performance of Mary and the Soldier by Paul Brady and Andy Irvine in 1976. This song always brings a little tear to my eye 🥹

2026-01-15 09:05:29 UTC

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Liking this from my special interest account 😂

2026-01-15 08:23:24 UTC

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GM! ☕
This morning I'm listening to Réalta playing Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) while watching the snow come down outside. Seems fitting somehow❄️

2026-01-13 16:10:53 UTC

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Music meets poetry as Cherish the Ladies sing The Ballad of the Foxhunter to the tune of the Foxhunter's slip jig. The poignant poem by W.B. Yeats tells of a dying huntsman saying farewell to his hounds and horses.

2025-12-03 15:23:05 UTC

It's all about the songs this week
Today, Dolores Keane sings The May Morning Dew, a haunting song from West Clare about the passage of time
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2025-12-01 13:55:45 UTC

GM and hope everyone is having a great start to the week ☕️✨️
We're back with another song today as Skipper's Alley perform a traditional sean nós song, Buachaillín Deas Óg Mé, in their characteristic contemporary style
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2025-11-30 12:56:43 UTC

Do you love an apple, do you love a pear?
Do you love a laddie with curly brown hair? 🎶
It's the Bothy Band again with Do You Love An Apple. The song was widespread in the British Isles in many different versions, probably dating from the 19th century
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2025-11-27 12:05:56 UTC

The Friel Sisters are one of my all-time favourite Irish music artists, and they also happen to be lovely people, as I had the opportunity to meet them in 2018.
Here they are with a set of reels: The Jolly Tinker (Donegal version) / Sailing into Walpole's Marsh / The Flowers of Red Hill.
Unfortunately the video gets cut off at the end, but all the more reason to go and check out to their albums 😉
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2025-11-25 16:34:32 UTC

And we're back after a few days' rest with the Lament for Limerick, played by Chris McMullan on the uilleann pipes
This beautiful slow air is said to be a Jacobean tune lamenting the defeat at Limerick in 1691
#irishmusic #musicstr
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2025-11-17 11:32:21 UTC

GM!
We haven't had any hornpipes yet, so here's the talented Zoë Conway with the Drunken Sailor, followed by one of the best Colonel Fraser's you'll ever hear on the fiddle 🎻
#irishmusic #fiddle #musicstr
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2025-11-16 13:46:43 UTC

Happy Sunday!
Mary Black, Emmylou Harris and Dolores Keane harmonise beautifully in this performance of Sonny's Dream, and Liam O'Flynn and Davy Spillane make an appearance on the pipes.
#irishmusic #musicstr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WaLZt11D7E

2025-11-13 11:23:16 UTC

For today, I have selected this energetic tune, composed and performed by Calum Stewart, a Scottish uilleann piper.
It's called Am Monadh Ruadh, the Scottish Gaelic name for the Cairngorms, and can be found on Calum's 2017 album, Tales from the North.
Well worth a listen
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2025-11-12 06:58:26 UTC

Good vibes from the streets of Galway 🎶
Dancer Emma O'Sullivan joins fiddler Fergal Scahill for a tune and a dance. Fergal's "Tune a Day" series on Youtube has surely become one of the most extensive libraries of Irish tunes online.
Since this video, he's reached #1706. That's dedication!
#musicstr #irishmusic #dance #fiddle
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2025-11-11 06:09:43 UTC

In 2019, Raglan Road was named Ireland's favourite folk song in a poll by RTÉ
The song started out as a poem written by Patrick Kavanagh and was later set to music to the tune of the slow air "The Dawning of the Day" (Fáinne Geal an Lae).
Sung here by the delightful Mary Black
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2025-11-10 07:25:52 UTC

As one of the most influential bands in Irish music for the last 50 years, this probably won't be the last time I post the Bothy Band here. They are the ones that started it all for me.
The tunes in this set are: Old Hag You Have Killed Me (jig) / Dinny Delaney's (slide, aka. The Hag at the Kiln) / Morrison's Jig
Absolutely characteristic of the Bothy Band's signature energy and drive 🔥
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2025-11-09 13:25:13 UTC

Inspired by @nprofile…9sz8, welcome to my Irish music account on Nostr 😊
For my inaugural tune, the late Liam O'Flynn performs the slow air An Buachaill Caol Dubh (The Dark Slender Boy) on the uilleann pipes.
Enjoy
https://youtu.be/5RO_tMxbt5g?si=ncdG4ou7I1jqw607