I have been busy with work, would someone from back home (Ireland) describe to me what the fuel protests are about? I have not been reading about anything and I feel guilty for it.
I have been busy with work, would someone from back home (Ireland) describe to me what the fuel protests are about? I have not been reading about anything and I feel guilty for it.
#Clannad singer and harpist Moya Brennan dies aged 73
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/14/clannad-singer-and-harpist-moya-brennan-dies-aged-73
Today: È morta Moya Brennan, la "first lady della musica celtica" e sorella di Enya
Moya Brennan, figura simbolo della musica tradizionale irlandese e pioniera del sound celtico contemporaneo, è morta lunedì 13 aprile all'età di 73 anni nella sua casa di Gaoth Dobhair, nella costa nord-occidentale della contea di Donegal. La notizia della scomparsa è stata diffusa dalla famiglia...
Moya Brennan has died, the “first lady of Celtic music” and sister of Enya.
Moya Brennan, a symbol of traditional Irish music and a pioneer of contemporary Celtic music, died Monday, April 13th at the age of 73 in her home in Gaoth Dobhair, on the northwest coast of County Donegal. The news of her passing was released by her family…
#MoyaBrennan #first #Celtic #Irish #GaothDobhair #CountyDonegal
https://www.today.it/vision/musica/morta-moya-brennan-sorella-enya.html
First issue since making this new Fedi account! Reminder: I publish my issues the day *before* the Feast Day in question.
Apr 15: Ruadhán of Lorrha, the Irish Prometheus. God of the Lost Golden Age of Innocence and plenty. Ruadhán is a friend of mankind, but also curiously his role in the theft of fire is *inverted* in the Irish myth - apparently, this god wanted to take fire *back* from mankind, perhaps to return us to our lost innocence after its misuse.
Sometimes a child of Brighid, sometimes a father of the Mórrígan Macha, and sometimes identified with An Dagda himself, Ruadh is a widespread god-epithet associated with wisdom, water, fire, and Death.
The central drama I explore in this issue also involves King Diarmait mac Cerbaill, apparently an incarnation or euhemerised representation of mankind's universal ancestor and later God of Death, Donn. The issue goes into him a bit too, and he'll definitely be getting his own issue... Maybe by Samhain/Hallowe'en!
https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/apr-15-ruadhan-of-lorrha-irish-prometheus/
#mythology #celtic #irish #saints
Lads and lassies,
This petition needs support.
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/we-support-the-motion-of-no-confidence-against-the-irish-government

We the undersigned are calling on all members of the Dail to support the upcoming motion of no confidence against the current Irish Government. Every crisis that the people on the island of Ireland have faced over the last few years has been exasperated by the lack of meaningful action taken by this government. From their lack of response and real support for people during the ongoing fuel and energy crisis to their deliberate efforts at ensuring the housing crisis worsens and health...

This is a good video on Appalachian music, but the channel as a whole has a lot of useful stuff on #irish music. Maybe give it a watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9uisnOhkWo

Our album "Sure Look It" has been repressed on translucent green vinyl!
Ya can get it at the below links or from the band at gigs.
Ireland/EU: https://distrotable.com/products/an-slua-sure-look-it?variant=53990893584730
North America: https://longshotmusic.bigcartel.com/product/an-slua-sure-look-it-12-lp
Cheers!