ITSC Singing Sessions are on the go!

Join us in the North Pole Bar, Drumfries or McFeeley’s Bar, Clonmany, second Friday of the month. 

Check our events calendar for details.

Latest News

Inishowen Trad Choir

Join us Tuesday evenings in the Colgan Hall, Carndonagh from 12 September. All welcome!

Funding Award
Creative Ireland 2023 Award for ITSC Trad Choir
New Release
Rita Gallagher - If my Health is Spared
Inishowen Trad Choir
New choir members welcome for September 2023
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Upcoming Events

2023/2024

September
26
October
3
October
13
McFeeley’s Bar
9.30pm
November
10
The North Pole Bar
9.00pm

22—25 March

Inishowen Singing
Festival 2024

What we do

Annual Festival

The longest running festival of traditional singing on the island of Ireland.

Singing Sessions

Local singing sessions on the second Friday of the month.

Song Tours

Our most enjoyable and popular events, not only during the Singing Weekend.

Talks & Lectures

In-depth lectures on singers and songs from Inishowen.

Other Events

News of events associated with our friends and supporters.

Songs & Singers

The history of the ITSC goes back to the 1980s and a local Buncrana school teacher originally from Gaoth Dobhair, Jimmy McBride. Jimmy along with Jim MacFarland and Colm Toland increasingly recognised and recorded the rich quality of the English language song tradition still alive among families and older singers in the Peninsula.

Listen

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Denis McDaid and Jimmy Houten
Dark Inishowen
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Charlie McGonigle
Going to Mass Last Sunday
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Maggie McGee
The Bay of Biscay O

Publications

The history of the ITSC goes back to the 1980s and a local Buncrana school teacher originally from Gaoth Dobhair, Jimmy McBride. Jimmy along with Jim MacFarland and Colm Toland increasingly recognised and recorded the rich quality of the English language song tradition still alive among families and older singers in the Peninsula.