Our Burns Nicht is now sold out – however there is a free Sunday afternoon session at the Abbey Tavern
Burns Weekend
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
September 2021
20th Anniversary Video Launch
Launch of
“I have spent it in good Company“
A video celebrating Twenty Years of the HSC
Thursday, 18 March at 8pm
on Zoom & streamed live on Facebook
introduced by Laurence Bond
& launched by Tim Dennehy
featuring
Bull Moore & the Ben Éadair Buccaneers
Ruth Clinton, Paddy Daly, Loíc Denis, Brian Doyle, Tony Fitzpatrick,
Declan Hoey, Helen Lahert, Siobhán Miller, Siobhán Moore,
Aodán Ó Ceallaigh, Diarmuid Ó Cathasaigh, Dave O’Connor,
Gerry O’Connor, Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne, Ann Riordan,
Jimmy Smyth
Zoom codes available from rioann@gmail.com
Of all the money that e’er I had / I have spent it in good company
Oh and all the harm I’ve ever done / Alas, it was to none but me
March 2020
Spring Marching
Fear an Tí – Brian Doyle
& Guest Mick Cantwell (accordion)
Thursday, 5 March
Abbey Tavern, 9pm sharp
all welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘And that’s what we mean when we say that a thing
Is welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring.
Tra la la la la la, la’
February 2020
Howth Singing Circle – Oíche Gaelach
With Special Guest
Máire Ní Choilm
Maire with the Corn Uí Riada Cup, 2019
Fear an Tí – Daire Ó Baoill
Thursday, 6 February
Abbey Tavern, 9pm sharp
all welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘A ógánaigh óig dá siúlfá an ród liom / Ba deas do lóistín is do leaba luí
Bheadh fliúit is orgán ag seinm ceoil duit / A thógfadh an brón seo go léir ód’ chroí.’
The latest edition of our magazine Sweet Nightingale is now available
https://howthsingingcircle.com/sweet-nightingale/
January 2020 HSC
Howth Singing Circle – January Session 2020
‘Spilling the Behans …’
Fir an Tí – Tony McGaley & Gerry O’Connor
Three in a Row – Dara Yeates
Thursday, 9 January
at 9pm, Abbey Tavern, Howth
All welcome – musicians, singers and listeners
‘As down the glen came McAlpine’s men / With their shovels slung behind them ‘Twas in the pub they drank the sub /And up in the spike you’ll find them
They sweated blood and they washed down mud / With pints and quarts of beer And now we’re on the road again / With McAlpine’s fusiliers’
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