June 2024

‘Fine Girl You Are!’

A Tribute to the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

Fir agus Bean an Tí –

Brian Doyle & Helen Lahert

Abbey Tavern, Thursday, 6 June from 8pm

all singers, musicians & listeners welcome

‘It being on the 23rd of June / As I sat weaving all by my loom,
It being on the 23rd of June / As I sat weaving all by my loom,
A birdie sang on an ivy bunch /And the song he sang was a jug of punch

2024

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

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

Latest Sweet Nightingale

Our September 2022 issue of Sweet Nightingale is now available

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