
Singing the Fishing 3 pm on July 20th





‘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


Bean a Tí: Una Kane and Ann Riordan
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’.




songs in Irish & English
all singers, musicians & listeners welcome
‘Mo choileach breá ramhar a rugadh sa Mhárta,
Nó go dtáinig na mná a chuir dúil ins an fheoil,
Phioc siad a chrúba agus scil siad a chnámha,
Agus chaith siad an lá sin súgach go leor’
2024



all singers, musicians & listeners welcome






100 years ago, November 14th 1923, William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irish citizen to achieve such an accolade. The prize was awarded ‘for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’.
Howth Singing Circle invite you to join us to celebrate in Song and Poetry the 100th Anniversary of this significant event.

