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Wanted by The Wanted Boy Band

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Irish/British boy band that formed in 2009 and topped the U.K. charts less than 12 months later.

De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow

Tim Pat Coogan

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The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera. From the...

The Maximalist: The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly

Matt Cooper

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An Irish epic, The Maximalist documents in unflinching detail and with great subtlety the meteoric...

Scarlet (20 KP) rated Song Of The Sea (2014) in Movies

Sep 17, 2017

Song Of The Sea (2014)

2014 | Animation, Family, Sci-Fi

6.9

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Beautiful film

A beautiful story of two young children steeped in Irish mythology. A must watch for the whole family.

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The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donnie Iris by 20th Century Masters

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Anguish - (Deep Inside Iris Mix) (with Clan of Xymox (Xymox)) by Clan Of Xymox

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Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power

Ronan Fanning

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This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards - Nonfiction Book of the...

Ian Anderson recommended After the Break by Planxty in Music (curated)

After the Break by Planxty

1979 | Rock

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"This wasn’t my introduction to folk music by any means, but it was my introduction to Irish folk music that wasn’t merely The Dubliners or The Chieftains. It was Irish music that had a bit of balls and a bit of a wayward quality that came I think from those guys knowing about rock music and, generally speaking, what was going on in the UK. You could call them the first progressive folk band. They had a good way of bringing together bits of tradition, mostly Irish traditional music, with an awareness in terms of arrangements that could only come from a knowledge of other musical forms. And of course they feature what was a growing, new instrument, a non-indigenous instrument of Irish music: the bouzouki. Not the bowl-shaped Greek bouzouki but the flat-backed bouzouki that was being made by luthiers in Britain and Ireland as a more convenient, big boy’s mandolin. The bouzouki became an important part of Irish folk music and Planxty used it to great effect."

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