Author: Howth Singing Circle

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Tickets for Howth Burns Nicht 2019 available.

€20 with cheques etc. made to Howth Singing Circle.

Booking essential

Thank you for your support

Francy Devine – 087 678 0360

or 086 778 8822

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Nollaig na mBan 2019

Howth Singing Circle – January Session

‘Nollaig na mBan’

Fisher lassies in Pittenweem, Fife

with

Niamh & Anne Parsons 

Thursday, 3 January

at 9pm, Abbey Tavern

All welcome ….musicians, singers and listeners welcome 

‘Bhí fuinneamh sa stoirm a éalaigh aréir, / Aréir Oíche Nollaig na mBan,

As gealt-teach iargúlta atá laistiar den ré / Is do scréach tríd an spéir chughainn ‘na gealt

Seán Ó Riordáin, ‘Oíche Nollaig na mBan’

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Christmas 2018

Howth Singing Circle Christmas Session

Thursday 6th December

in the Abbey Tavern 9 pm

Laurence Bond & Ann Riordan

‘With Thankful Hearts and Joyful Minds’

 

Free raffle, carols and goodies.

All welcome

Feel free to forward notice

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Howth Singing Circle

November Session

‘Songs of Wexford’

with

Cathal Caulfield

Thursday, 1 November

at 9pm, Abbey Tavern 

All welcome musicians, singers and listeners welcome

‘Oh the cuckoo is a pretty bird and she sings as she flies
She brings us glad tidings and she tells us no lies
She sucks the small birds’ eggs to make her voice clear
And the more she sings cuckoo, the summer draws near’

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Howth Singing Circle – October Session

 

Harbour Lights –

A celebration of Howth Harbour,

constructed 1808-1818

 

 

Bean agus Fear an Tí –

Áine & Diarmuid Ó Cathasaigh

 

Thursday, 4 October

at 9pm, Abbey Tavern


‘Sly little Cupid has knocked me stupid / In grief I mourn upon my oath
My frame’s declining, I’m so repining / For Hannah Healy, the pride of Howth’

 

 

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6th September 2018

Howth Singing Circle – September Session

 

Autumn Harvest Songs –

Songs of Harvest & Country Life

 

 

Bean agus Fear an Tí – Helen Lahert & Gerry O’Connor

with Three in a Row from John Keely

 

Thursday, 6 September

at 9pm, Abbey Tavern, Howth

 

Please bring items for the Harvest Basket raffle


‘The field lie silent now’

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7th June 2018

Howth Singing Circle – June Session

 

‘June Jubilations’ 

 

Fear an Tí –

Diarmuid Ó Cathasaigh

Thursday, 7 May at 9pm, Abbey Tavern –

All musicians, singers & listeners welcome

‘Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn …’

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‘Me Oul Flower….’

Thursday 3rd May – Abbey Tavern – 9 pm – adm €4

“Where have all the flowers gone”, you may ask.
Well if you want to find out just come along to Howth Singing Circle on Thursday 3rd of May for a session entitled “Me Oul Flower” hosted by Tony Fitzpatrick and Brendan Kennedy.
Sweet Daffodil Mulligan is bound to be there, if we can shift her off the banks of primroses where she goes to pick a daisy a day.
There will be banks of red roses all the way from Allendale to Tralee, and you may find bread or a briar mixed in with a rose somewhere along the way.
There may be flowers from Magherally or Finae, tulips from Amsterdam and we may even have an edelweiss.
If you’re going to the Howth Singing Circle be sure to bring a Bright Blue Rose from Both sides the Tweed or a Whatever Happened from Dick Gaughan. (Tony Fitzpatrick)

 

Please feel free to pass on

 

 

 

 

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5th April 2018

Howth Singing Circle next Thursday 5 April at 9pm, in the Abbey Tavern – Admn. €4

Our Special Guest is Annie Reid from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

 

This promises to be a fantastic night with other visitors from Scotland and Wales.

Feel free to pass on.

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Special Weekend

HSC welcomes guests from two UK folk clubs with two events this weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, 24 March from 3-4pm we are singing for St Francis Hospice in Sutton Methodist Church, accompanied by guests from the Grand Union Folk Club, Sileby, Leicestershire and the Tigerfolk Traditional Folk Club, Long Eaton, Derbyshire.

On Sunday morning, 25 March starting at 11 o’clock sharp in the foyer of the Liberty Hall Auditorium on Eden Quay, we commence an Historical Walking and Singing Tour along the quays, recalling, in particular, the 1913 Lockout, emigration, women’s struggles, seafaring and dock working. The walk concludes at the Larkin Monument in O’Connell Street.

You are welcome to join us for both or either event