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’.
March 2024
“An Ownerless Corner of Songs“
For Francy Devine on his 75th birthday
Howth Singing Circle
Thursday 7th March 2024 – 8 to 11
in the Abbey Tavern, Howth.
All singers and listeners welcome
Fir an Tí Paddy Daly & Laurence Bond
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
December 2023 Christmas Session
Online Event Thursday 16th November
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.