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’.

October 2022

October 2022

Songs of Munster

with Fergus Carey & Francy Devine

Three in a Row from Claudia Anderson (Chicago)

1610 map of ‘The Province of Mounster’ by John Speed, 1551-1629

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

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