An open session in aid of St Francis Hospice
Singing the Fishing
Summer 2022
Howth Singing Circle
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.’
Robbie Burns Nicht 22.1.22
Howth Singing Circle’s 21st Burns Nicht is again a virtual event run in association with Edinburgh Folk Club and The World’s Room.
A concert will take place on Saturday 22 January from 8pm
live on Zoom & FB
code details from rioann@gmail.com.
The array of concert guests includes Margaret Bennett (Perthshire); Steve Byrne (Arbroath); Aoife Dermody & Mairéad Whelan (Dublin); David Francey (Canada); Billy Jolly (Orkney); John Kelly Band; Amy Leach & Jo Miller (Edinburgh); Méabh Meir (Belfast); Liam O’Brien (Clare); Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin (Dublin); Ciarán Ó Maoileoin (Bray); and Gary West (Perth). A haggis will be addressed by Morag Dunbar (Fife) and the night hosted by David Francis (EFC)
On Sunday, 23 January there will be a live Singing Session with guests Scott Gardiner (Forfar) & Niamh Parsons (HSC).
January 2022
Howth Singing Circle
Thursday 6th January 2022 @ 8pm
“This woman’s Boots are made for Walking”
Zoom event Hosted by Helen Lahert and Niamh Parsons
For Zoom details contact rioann@gmail.com
All welcome
December 2021 Zoom Session
Zoom Session
‘I Saw Mrs Claus Kissing Santa’
Bean agus Fear an Tí
Eileen Clancy & Gerry O’Connor
with Three-in-a-row from
Eugene McEldowney
Thursday, 2 December 2021 from 8.30
Zoom codes from rioann@gmail.com
All Welcome
‘And the first tree that’s in the green wood
It was the holly’
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
October Zoom Session
Our next virtual session is on
Thursday 7th October 2021
Female Pirates and Songs of the Sea
Hosted by Niamh Parsons
Zoom codes from rioann@gmail.com
“It’s of a pretty female as you may understand,
Her mind being bent for rambling into some foreign land.
She dressed herself in sailor’s clothes or so it does appear,
And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year.”
All Welcome!
Northern Lights & Fingal Folk
Celebrating Howth Singing Circle’s 21st Season
with the TMSA Aberdeen Branch
Northern Lights & Fingal Folk
Howth Harbour and the Dee flowing through Aberdeen
Thursday, 30 September 2021 from 8pm
Fear agus Bean an Tí
Ann Riordan & Ian Russell
for Zoom codes rioann@gmail.com
Please note that this event WILL be streamed live on Facebook
‘Sly little Cupid has knocked me stupid;
In grief I mourn, for upon my oath;
My frame’s declining, I’m so repining
For Hannah Healy, the pride of Howth
‘The Northern Lights of Aberdeen are what I long
to see;
The Northern Lights of Aberdeen, that’s where I
long to be.
I’ve been a wand’rer all of my life and many a
sight I’ve seen.
God speed the day when I’m on my way to my
home in Aberdeen’
Howth Singing Circle 