Brú Ború
Contact
- Una Ó Murchú
- Cashel
- Co. Tipperary
- +353 62 61122
Features
- Performance Hall
- Bar
- Restaurant/Café
- Shop
- Conference Rooms
Brú Ború Cultural Centre
Brú Ború cultural centre, located at the foot of the historic Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, is home to the Brú Ború group, which has given Irish traditional music, song, and dance renewed importance in the world of entertainment. In addition to their nightly performances at home, the group travels worldwide to perform for Heads of State and at prestigious world events. Some of their most notable performances include:
- Osaka and Nogaya in Japan and in Seville - for EXPO
- Milan - for the Italian World Cup
- For the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Australia and the Sultan of Oman
- China - on the Great Wall, at the Summer Palace, and in the Forbidden City
- Malaysia - the Asian Games 2009 in Penang.
Watch a video about Brú Ború’s performance programme.
Additional Services
Facilities at Brú Ború include a folk theatre, restaurant, craft centre, recreation chamber, information centre, and genealogy suite. During the Summer season (June to August), there is an extensive programme of services and activities on offer. This includes exciting stage shows of top class traditional music, song and dance. Stage shows can be combined with lunch or dinner as appropriate to meet customer requirements.
Glór na gCianta
The most recent addition to the centre is Glór na gCianta (Sounds of History). These subterranean chambers, seven metres underground at the base of the famous Rock of Cashel, echo to the story of Ireland from ancient times to the present day.
Rock of Cashel
You round a 20th century bend on the main Dublin-Cork road and you are transported back 1,500 years.
There, standing proud of the plains, is the great 4th century fortification of Cashel - the stone fort. This was the seat of kings and mediaeval bishops for 900 years and flourished until the early 17th century. Indeed there was a settlement here from pre-Christian times, traces of which have long since vanished.
The original forbidding fortification of the Eoghanachta, kings of Munster, witnessed the struggle for dominance of Munster kings over the whole of Ireland. Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002. He was the first high king to exact universal and effective tribute from the other kings of Ireland.
Interwoven into the turbulent history of the ‘Rock’ is an impressive ecclesiastical fabric which spans the Middle Ages. In the 5th century St Patrick converted Aenghus, the king of the time, and made Cashel a bishopric. In 1101 Muircheartach O’Brien granted the Rock to the Church and in 1127, the bishop Cormac MacCarthy, started work on a Chapel which survives to this day and is the most remarkable Romanesque church in the country. A round tower was added about this time. The largest building on the Rock is the 13th century cathedral and all in all the complex represents the most impressive mediaeval collection of buildings in Ireland.
The great monument in stone has seen war and peace, scholarship and devotion over a millennium and a half. It is fitting, therefore, that once again, the great traditions of learning and art which kept the flame of scholarship alight in a Europe dimmed by the Dark Ages, should have an echo at Cashel today.
Brú Ború - The palace of Ború - is a national heritage centre at the foot of the Rock of Cashel. This cultural and interpretative village is designed around a village green and is home to the study and celebration of native Irish music, song, dance, story telling, theatre and Celtic studies.
As Brian Ború inspired a sense of nationhood in the 11th century from his seat at the Rock of Cashel, Brú Ború will focus on bringing people together in the pursuit of Celtic scholarship and art.
Enquiries
Ireland
Úna Ó Murchú
Brú Ború
Cashel
Co Tipperary
Tel: + 353 (0)62 61122
Fax: + 353 (0)62 62700
E-Mail:
Britain
Jim Teevan
26 Fieldfare Green
Luton LU4 OYB
UK
USA
Helen Gannon
7489 Whitehaven Drive
St Louis, MO
USA 63123
Canada
Brian Breathnach
2237 Ireland Drive
Burlington
Ontario
Canada L7P 3IA
Tel: + 1 905 332 1484
