#belfast needs to have a conversation about how we allow the name of a colonial psychopath like Arthur Chichester to still adorn our streets.

‘We spare none of what quality or sex soever, and it has bred much terror in the people.’

Excited to announce this upcoming gig in Belfast’s Duncairn Arts Centre with the award-winning Ryan Molloy, Ben Castle and special guest Cathal O’Curráin!

Bígí linn!

Ticket link: theduncairn.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Call for papers from @birzeit.bsky.social for forthcoming conference on The Palestinians and the genocidal
War on Gaza.

Brilliant to experience the live college sports band experience up close at the #friendshipfour in old Belfast town. Band of @merrimackcollege.bsky.social during the period break.

Bhí Altan linn i nDámh Chruinne Éireann inné!

Mighty to have these legends working with our students!

@unioflimerick.bsky.social

6/ The music of the Jacobites is also found here in the airs Limerick’s Lament and Patrick Sarsfield, essentially the rebel music of its day referring back to the events of King William’s conquest only three decades earlier. That’s as recent as Italia ‘90 is to us.

5/ A few tunes from the great harp composer Turlough Carolan were already famous enough to be published during his lifetime in this book. Carolan was referred to in Dublin as Signor Carrollini where he supposedly mixed with the composer Geminiani. One of his most beautiful airs is The Fairy Queen.

2/ This book of Irish music tells us an enormous amount about the Irish language, the Penal laws, Jacobite culture, the so-called Glorious revolution and Anglo-Irish Dublin. The first thing to take away is the transliteration of the tune tutors from Gaelic into English phonetics (see below).

Trad Music 🧵 This year is the 300th anniversary of the most important Irish book you’ve never heard of: first Irish publication of Irish music, The Neals’ ‘A Collection of the most celebrated Irish Tunes proper for the violin, German Flute or Hautboy (Dublin, 1724). Why is this important? Read on…

First post on BlueSky of happy recent music times with Ryan and Ben. Here’s to building a good community in this new space.