Annie Hirrell
Good News from Home
Live Events
on Zoom
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Video Premieres
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friday
All events are free.
Donations to support the activities of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle are very welcome and much appreciated.
John Donovan of Inishtrahull
My Inishowen Song Project
Enjoy carefully selected gems – many previously unpublished – from the vast store of the Inishowen Song Project (ISP) featuring singers from Armagh, Dublin, England, Scotland, the USA and Inishowen.
The songs will be introduced by Bennery & Micheál Quinn, Dara Yeates, Peta Webb & Ken Hall, Chris Miles, Kara O’Brien, Bredgeen & Brónach Harkin and Jim MacFarland.
Charlie McGonigle
Meeting Is a Pleasure
saturday
All events are free.
Donations to support the activities of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle are very welcome and much appreciated.
Ken Hall
An Irishman’s Dream
sunday
All events are free.
Donations to support the activities of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle are very welcome and much appreciated.
Maggie Magee
Shamrocks
10–11
december
Guests
Ye Vagabonds
The Henry Girls
Ian Lynch (Lankum)
Relaunch of the
Inishowen Song Project
In collaboration with the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle will relaunch the Inishowen Song Project website on 10 December 2021.
The song project is a unique 2,000-item microsite presenting the traditional singers and songs of the Inishowen peninsula, Co Donegal, and incorporating digital sound and video recordings, books, photographs, transcriptions of song texts, and metadata catalogue information for each item.
The Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle
We are a voluntary organisation formed in 1988 to encourage, foster and perpetuate the folk song and ballad tradition of the Inishowen Peninsula. We are based in Clonmany, Donegal.
On the second Friday of the months September until June the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle run a session, either in McFeeley’s Bar, Clonmany or in the North Pole Bar, Drumfries. We are indebted to James & Orla in McFeeley’s and to Hilda in the North Pole for providing such warm and welcoming venues for the sessions. While the night mainly revolves around singing, we often have a few tunes thrown in, as well as plenty good company and craic. We welcome all to the sessions to sing, play or sit back and listen.
Revised Edition 2019
My Parents Reared Me Tenderly
Compiled and Annotated by Jim MacFarland and Jimmy McBride
15.5 x 22.5 cm (6.1 x 8.7 inches), 144 pages, 22 images, 1 map
First published 1985, Revised Edition with CD, March 2019
ISBN 978-1-9160382-0-2
©2021 Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle
Amhráin Inis Eoghain
Songs as Gaeilge from Inishowen
This 30 minutes film, produced during Covid restrictions by the Inishowen Traditional Music Project (ITMP), features a host of local musicians and singers bringing new life to six songs in the native Irish of Inishowen.
ITMP was delighted to work with Mairéad Ní Mhaoinaigh, Colm O’Tuathaláin and Pádraig Ó Dochartaigh.
