Howth
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
April 2023
March 2023
November 2022
October 2022
Songs of Munster
with Fergus Carey & Francy Devine
Three in a Row from Claudia Anderson (Chicago)
Thursday, 6 October from 8pm
Howth Sea Angling Club, West Pier
all singers, musicians & listeners welcome
‘How oft I’ve watched him from the Hill move here and there in grace,
In Cork, Killarney, Thurles town or by the Shannon’s race,
‘Now Cork is bet; the hay is saved!’ the thousands wildly sing-
Don’t speak too soon, my sweet garsún, for here comes Christy Ring.’
A memory in tribute to our friend, the late Jimmy Smyth of Ruan
Latest Sweet Nightingale
Our September 2022 issue of Sweet Nightingale is now available
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‘