Spring 2003
Eagarfhocal
The native culture of Ireland has experienced many challenges over the centuries - oppression, misrepresentation and apathy. These challenges to our national identity produced many heroic figures - men and women of vision who gave effective and dedicated service to the cultural movement.
It is an acknowledged fact that in a pseudo-progressive and very often superficial world challenges to indigenous culture do not disappear, they merely change character but are nonetheless corrosive.
Among the new challenges facing the distinctive Irish cultural heritage passed down to us from generation to generation is an agenda to cut off our traditions from the very community roots which spawned and sustained native genius. Concepts like ‘community’, ‘tradition’, ‘heritage’, ‘cultural identity’ and other distinctive characteristics are to be subsumed into an all-embracing ‘contemporary’ ethos. Why? Is it to confuse? Is it shame? Is it a false notion of rising above one’s station in life? Only time will tell!
- A Damning Indictment of Arts Council
- Queen Victoria and the Bandwagon
- Clare Council Backs Comhaltas
- Comhaltas Public Relations Seminar an Outstanding Success!
- Traditional Music Tops in 1974
- Mol an Óige
- Please Come Back!
- A Future for Comhaltas Summer Camps
- Seán Seery: Musician, Storyteller, Family Man
- Comhaltas Live
- Musical Voyage on the Crest of a Wave
- Making Waves in Atlanta
- Is maith is cuimhin liom é
- Fleady Nua 2002
- Letterkenny Hunts the Wren
- The Pipes are Calling
- ‘The Luckiest Girl in the Universe’
- Traditional Irish Music Alive and Well in Canada
- 4th Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert
- An t-am deireanach a chan mé Master McGrath
- Langan-Gorman Toronto Comhaltas Branch - Sponsor
- Chris Langan Tribute
- Fleadh Amhrán agus Rince
- Seisiún
- TG4 Young Musician of the Year
- She lived beside the Anner
- Echoes of that First Accordion
- New Uilleann Piping CD
- Making Music in Manchester
- Then and Now!
- Cambridge Comhaltas
- Down ‘Bóithrín na Smaointe’ in Kanturk
- Gorey is Back!
- Farewell to ‘Big Cormac’
- South Korea at a Glance
- A Man of Music
- Listowel Seisiún
- The McElroys of Drumnaquoile Stars of the Co Down!
- Scrúdú Ceol Tire
- What is an Archive of Traditional Irish Music?
- Gradam for Joe
- Brian Conway’s ‘Gate’ is a Keeper
- ‘For Margie’s Benefit’
- Memorial to Pat Lyons Unveiled
- Fleadh Down Under
- A Fond Farewell to Notable Stalwarts
- Belfast Lord Mayor Lauds Comhaltas Peace Initiative
- New Treoir Subscription procedure for USA and Canada
- Songs and Singers