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Máire Ní Chaoimh

@okeeffefiddle.bsky.social

Musician/fiddle player, Lecturer in Music Ed @MICLimerick love all music especially #TradIrish #Mozart #Kerry at heart

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Musikk fra Irland: Fleadh Ceoil - NRK TV Reportasje fra en irsk folkemusikkfestival.

For the week that’s in it! #FleadhCheoil2025 from 9 min towards end of piece some lovely footage of Mick Mulcahy, Denis MacMahon Julia Clifford, Denis Murphy and Dónal O’Connor. @ITMADublin
tv.nrk.no/serie/musikk...

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Took a while!

07.07.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Was such a pleasure to perform at the celebration mass for Fr. Malachy yesterday evening in Grange church, and to perform a duet with the stunning voice of Róisin Bradley!!! So happy for Fr. Malachy who was made a Canon, as were the hundreds of people who attended. Glorious evening 🩷

21.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Big flight coming up folks 🤩 Heading to New York to perform 2 beautiful shows with some beautiful people and we are very excited 🎶
Irish Arts Centre here we come!
#fiddle #guitar #ontour #irishmusic #ilovemyjob

23.06.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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22.06.2025 19:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Summer Solstice
Drombeg Stone Circle, Cork, Ireland
Its alignment allows the setting sun to mark the winter/ summer solstices (Heritage Ireland)
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #Solstice #SummerSolstice

21.06.2025 06:05 — 👍 57    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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So excited to finally announce the amazing guests for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on Sept 11th 🤩 It's gonna be epic - tickets on sale now!!

Anam Éireann | The Soul of Ireland ✨

Thur 11 Sept, 7.30pm
The Helix

orchestra.rte.ie/events/4977/...

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Second day in a row!

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Well now!

20.06.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rehearsal day in sunny Dublin 🤩
Almost ready now for our big gigs in New York next week!!!! 🎶🎻
Wish us luck 😊😊😊

#fiddle #irishmusic #newmusic #Dublin #newyork #irishartscentre

18.06.2025 21:33 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'There’s great satisfaction in hearing your own tunes played': Jackie Daly turns 80  Cork trad legend Jackie Daly talks Sliabh Luachra, innovative tuning, and doing a Beatles cover that Paul McCartney loved 
18.06.2025 20:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 1922 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Petite fille à la guitare” (1940) Marie Laurencin. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Laurencin was a French painter, illustrator and stage designer who became an important figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde.

19.06.2025 08:59 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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📢Just announced: Brian Kennedy live at Seamus Heaney HomePlace!

Join the legendary Irish singer-songwriter for a powerful night of music and storytelling.

📅 Saturday 18th October
🕒 7.30pm
📍 The Helicon
💷 £25

Tickets on sale Monday 23 June at 10am > tinyurl.com/bdevahcc

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19.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Chúirt Chruitireachta – International Festival for Irish Harp 2025

An Chúirt Chruitireachta – International Festival for Irish Harp takes place from Sunday 29 June to Friday 4 July at An Grianán in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth. See the full schedule of classes and events here: bit.ly/44gtuA2 #promotion

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Didn’t see that coming!

17.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A recent behind the scenes pic 🤩 Busy over the last few weeks working on new music & orchestrations which is so lovely...but also getting ready for our upcoming 'Harps Alive' concert!!
Belfast here we come!!!! See ye on Saturday!!!

📍 St George’s, Belfast
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1363416598...

09.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Last day to order prints in time for Father's Day in Ireland on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints Get your dad something he'll look at with mild confusion, say "oh, that's nice" and place in the back of a press somewhere, never to be seen again.

10.06.2025 08:40 — 👍 41    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1
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Joe Derrane’s A jig with eleven settings and twenty-five comments.

New tune setting: Joe Derrane's (jig)

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They’re getting harder!

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09.06.2025 19:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Just about!!

08.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Moran’s Return A barndance with nine settings and twenty-eight comments.

New tune setting: Moran's Return (barndance)

06.06.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
This list of ‘books in Irish script’ (Libri scottice scripti) was compiled in the mid-9th century as part of a catalogue of the library of Sankt Gallen Abbey, testifying to the large number of Irish manuscripts that were already in its collections at this time. Image courtesy of Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 728, p.4

This list of ‘books in Irish script’ (Libri scottice scripti) was compiled in the mid-9th century as part of a catalogue of the library of Sankt Gallen Abbey, testifying to the large number of Irish manuscripts that were already in its collections at this time. Image courtesy of Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 728, p.4

How did early medieval Ireland connect with the continent?
From sacred texts to sea routes, explore the cultural currents that linked Irish monks to Europe.
Read about the major new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland @currentarchaeology.bsky.social‬ the-past.com/feature/word...

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ITMA was delighted to welcome a group of students from the School of Journalism and Media - University of Texas at Austin yesterday, along with Associate Professor Donna DeCesare. A few steps and tunes by ITMA staff Bridie Flaherty, Seán Potts, Sophie Ryan, Iarlaith Mac Gabhann, and Andrew Caden.

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Check out these 5 Literacy Games on the website. They are all in PPTX format and are ones which pupils will enjoy. www.seomraranga.com/category/cur...

06.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Coming this month from @futafata.bsky.social - Volume 2 of @aliceoseman.bsky.social Heartstopper - AS GAEILGE!
Aistrithe ag Eoin McEvoy.
Preorder here / Réamhordú anseo - thebookshop.ie/alice-oseman...

05.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Hi all, I'll be starting up a once-monthly evening concertina hang-out session on Zoom for current and former concertina students, concertina customers, and other friends of Groff's Music. Message me if you might be interested in participating. NO CHARGE and you don't have to play in the meeting

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