April 2024

Howth Singing Circle are delighted to welcome as our guests,  two highly talented singers and concertina players,  Eva Carroll from Clare and Méabh Mulligan from Dublin. 

Please join us for what promises to be a fantastic evening of music and song.

Thursday 4th April, 2024 8.00 – 11.00 p.m

The Abbey Tavern, Abbey Street, Howth

Bean a Tí: Una Kane and Ann Riordan

All welcome

Eva was born in Feakle and her parents Paula Carroll and Brian O’Rourke are both acclaimed singers.  She began singing sean-nos and traditional songs in English in harmony with her mother.  Moving to Dublin broadened Eva’s horizons and introduced a wide range of singers and musicians, and she started singing solo, greatly encouraged by her friend and fellow-guest, Meabh Mulligan.  Eva has been a guest at the Frank Harte Festival, Drogheda Traditional Weekend and The Night Before Larry.

Meabh was born in Dublin and has a background which is steeped in traditional music and song from both sides of her family.  On the singing side, she was heavily influenced by her grandfather Micil Ned and the rest of the Quinn clan of Mullaghbaw, County Armagh.  Meabh has performed at many festivals and events both in Ireland and abroad all her life, and continues to do so with her band ‘The Len Collective’.

February 2024

Oíche Ghaelach

with Special Guest / le hAoi Speisialta

Naoise Mac Cathmhaoill (Donegal)

Fir a’ Ti – Paddy Daly & Stiofáin Ó hAoláin

songs in Irish & English

Thursday, 1 February from 8pm

Abbey Tavern

all singers, musicians & listeners welcome

‘Mo choileach breá ramhar a rugadh sa Mhárta,
Nó go dtáinig na mná a chuir dúil ins an fheoil,
Phioc siad a chrúba agus scil siad a chnámha,
Agus chaith siad an lá sin súgach go leor’

2024

January 2024 Session

Songs For Nollaig na mBan

with Helen Lahert & Niamh Parsons

Thursday, 4 January from 8pm

Howth Sea Angling Club, West Pier

Howth Burns Nicht tickets available

and songs rehearsed to be performed on the night

all singers, musicians & listeners welcome

Our online Magazine, Sweet Nightingale, No 29 is available HERE

November 2023

The Silver Apples of the Moon

The Golden Apples of the Sun

100 years ago, November 14th 1923, William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irish citizen to achieve such an accolade. The prize was awarded ‘for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’.

Howth Singing Circle invite you to join us to celebrate in Song and Poetry the 100th Anniversary of this significant event.

Thursday November 2nd 2023

Howth Sea Angling Club, West Pier Howth

8.00pm to 11pm

Mná an Tí: Mairide Woods / Helen Lahert

October 2023

Howth Singing Circle invite you to join us and our
special guest, the critically acclaimed and award-
winning
Singer and Uileann Piper
Sorcha Ní Scolaí
for what promises to be an exciting night of song and
music.

Thursday 5th October, 2023 8.00 – 11.00 p.m

Howth Sea Angling Club, West Pier Howth

Fear/bean a Tí: Michael King / Ann Riordan