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Pet O'Connell
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Iriseoir leis an Irish Examiner. Worcester woman.
This weekend’s Féile na Laoch sees a reprise of Ceoltóirí Chualann, featuring Seán Ó Sé. @catherinegalway.bsky.social addresses a celebration of Fuinneamh na mBan, or female energy, where Cór Ban Chúil Aodha perform Peadar Ó Riada's Laoi na Laoithe. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Voice of women to be heard as Féile na Laoch festival looks to future
Artificial intelligence, climate change, and employment are among discussion topics at the gathering in Cúil Aodha, writes Pet O'Connell
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Irish Examiner children's book reviews: Magical urchins, a fearful fur ball, and a pubescent trainee banshee: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tacking up and mucking out, hoof picking and horsey snobbery in new children's books: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... As the Kanturk native celebrates his 80th birthday, ranked among his achievements is the title of the Man who put the Planxty into the Sliabh Luachra tradition.
'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
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June 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @emmalarkinbooks.bsky.social threads family intrigue through the sporting action in 'Féile', capturing the essence of grassroots GAA and parochial rivalries. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @megcathwrites.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Futuristic fantasy holds a mirror to today’s world, where it is perhaps not AI we should fear, but those who would use it for nefarious ends. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social
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June 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Drawing on biographical detail from CS Lewis’ life, including the death of his Cork-born mother when he was aged 9, Judith McQuoid creates an imaginary friendship between Lewis and her own grandfather. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil for lifetime achievement. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @tg4.bsky.social
Matt Cranitch takes a bow for lifetime of musical achievement
Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil award for lifetime achievement
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April 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Case of the Secret Signal is historically informative but first and foremost just what a children’s book should be: a damn good adventure@theobrienpress.bsky.social @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
March 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, first held by a nascent Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Mullingar in 1951, was “the most extraordinary thing which happened to traditional music in the 1950s and 1960s on this island”. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
How the Fleadh Cheoil helped revive traditional music in Ireland
A new book shows how the Fleadh played a crucial role in helping to revive traditional music
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March 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A shape-shifting beast with jagged antlers and red eyes arrives from another time and place but nearly as petrifying is the spine-chilling spectre of peer rejection @Doomsday Club @kmoranwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
February 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music, Annie Patterson was instrumental in the foundation of Oireachtas na Gaeilge and Feis Ceoil. @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @ucc.bsky.social
Remembering Annie Patterson, the trailblazer who was UCC's first female music lecturer
As the anniversary of Dr Annie Patterson's death approaches, Pet O'Connell recalls the life of the incredible woman who also was instrumental in the creation of the Feis Ceoil and Oireachtas na Gaeilg...
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January 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“There’s an obvious Irish influence when you listen to Québécois music - whether it’s known about or not.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @canadianirish.bsky.social
Plus ça change... how Irish trad has influenced the music of Quebec
The Francophone province has a proud music culture, with both fans and ethnomusicologists spotting the strong Irish links in many of the tunes
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January 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM