Abbey Tavern
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
Burns Weekend
Our Burns Nicht is now sold out – however there is a free Sunday afternoon session at the Abbey Tavern
June 2022
Howth Singing Circle –June Session
Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn
Fir a’ Tí – Gerry O’Connor and Paddy Daly
Three in a Row – Aoife Caomhanach
Thursday, 2 June at 7.30pm – Abbey Tavern
Note the earlier time – 7.30 – 10.30
All musicians, singers and listeners welcome
May 2022
Howth Singing Circle – May Session
A Garland for May
Fir an Tí -Francy Devine & Brian Doyle
Three in a Row – Fergus Whelan
Thursday, 5 May at 8.30pm – Abbey Tavern
all musicians, singers and listeners welcome
‘With head uncovered swear we all
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn‘
March 2022 Live in the Abbey!
We’re Back Live in the Abbey
Oíche Ghaelach le hAoi Speisialta
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin
Mná Tí
Helen Lahert & Máire Ní Bhaoill
Thursday, 3 March 2022 from 8.30
Abbey Tavern, Howth
‘Nach mór an cliú do phoball Carna ó thosuigh an lánmhain seo ag dul thrid
Ba deise breághtha méin na mná ná an Morning Star nuair d’eirigheócha sí
Tá an Bhanríoghan tinn is i na luighe lag síos, deir na dochtúirí go bhfaoi sí bás
Sé fios m’údair go ndeir siad liomsa faoi nach bhfuil sí pósta ag Mr Joyce.’
November Live Session
‘We’re Back Live In The Abbey’
Fir an Tí
Brian Doyle & Walter Kennedy
with Three in a Row from Máire Ní Bhaoill
Thursday, 4 November 2021 from 8.30
Abbey Tavern
All Welcome
Admission Requires Proof of Vaccination
Social Distancing & Covid Rules Will Apply
This session will not be broadcast on Zoom or FB
‘You’d think the whole country of Erin was waiting to get on the boat.
There’s accents from Antrim to Kerry, from Westport to the high hills of Howth.
And in no time, we’re into Dun Laoghaire, and the dawn rising clear in the sky.
I’m on the last leg of my journey. It’s hello to the fair Aran Isles.’
Kieran Halpin – Trip through Holyhead