History
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- History of the Piper’s Club
- 9 July 2007
The origins of the Dublin Pipers’ Club are tied up with the Literary Revival, which focused interest on all aspects of our culture including the music. The National Literary Revival that began during the closing decade of the nineteenth century heralded the birth of the Gaelic League, the Feis Ceoil and the Dublin Pipers’ Club (all Dublin based).
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- Turlough O’Carolan: Irish Harper
- 17 January 2007
Turlough O’Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) was born in 1670 near Nobber, County Meath and died March 25, 1738 at the home of his patron Mrs. MacDermott Roe in Alderford, County Roscommon. He was one of the last Irish harpers who composed and a significant number of his works survive in single line melody.
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- Roscommon History
- 17 January 2007
The first Co. Board of Comhaltas in Co. Roscommon was established in 1954 - just three years after the founding of the Parent Body in Mullingar in 1951. County Roscommon is a county steeped in traditional culture and is noted, with South Sligo and Leitrim, for its distinctive style of flute playing to the present day.