Andrew Hunt Andrew Hunt (1860-1946) was a hedge-school teacher, occult adept, and music-maker whose practical knowledge of bardic, folklore, and mystery traditions and...
O’Farrell, Ultan (b Longford, 14 February 1872; d Dublin, 23 April 1938). Uilleann Piper. O’Farrell was the third and youngest son of Padraic...
The Kilkenny Engagists Performance artists. A group of musicians and artists working in Kilkenny, 1973-75 approximately. The Kilkenny Engagists – known mostly...
A Brief Introduction to the Guinness Dadaists Ireland was an extremely chaotic place to live throughout the teens and 1920s. Ireland was one...
O’Ceallaigh, Sr Anselme (b Galway, 12 Dec 1940; d Galway 27 April 1988). Composer and conductor. Sr Anselme was the youngest of 7...
Pádraig Mac Giolla Mhuire (Patrick Murray) In 2009 Irish musicologist Antoinne Ó Murchú was digging through the audio archives of the Irish Folklore...
Kilbride & Malone Duo (Niall Kilbride, b Limerick, 22 Sept. 1950; d Boston 8 April 1999; Karen Malone, b Limerick 3 Oct. 1952;...
Ó Laoire, Sinéad and Fiachra (b Belfast, 11 June 1890; d Donegal 23 Aug 1958 and 27 April 1917). Composers, instrument builders, teachers....
Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009) Outsider artist. Irish outsider artist Caoimhín Breathnach lived in Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon, as a recluse for most of his life....
Hennessy, Billie (b Carlow, 7 Oct. 1882; d New York 21 June 1929). Painter and composer. Hennessy trained at the Metropolitan School of...
Surrealism on Achill Island: the forgotten oeuvre of Sean Cullinane The oeuvre of Sean Cullinane (1915-70), an Achill-based musician and dramaturgist, represents a...
“Humble Beginnings” Sloan Ravenscroft, from WFMU’s Beware of the Bog 13.11.2012 The Sixties in Ireland are an obscure time for avant-garde activity. Take...
The Reverend Joseph Garvan Digges, M.A. (b 1858 d 1933). Ecclesiastic, Beekeeper, Organist and Composer. Broadly considered the Father of Irish beekeeping and...
The Aleatoric Revisionist Balladeers Collective. Little is known about this group other than that they numbered six and met several times over the...
PrimAUDial Language Performances Happenings. Occurring between 1950 – 1974 on Great Blasket Island and then later around the Dingle Peninsula, PrimAUDial Language Performances...
Os Ard Irish Text Score/Composition by Róisín Madigan O’Reilly, completed between 1925 – 1926. Following exposure to Kurt Schwitters’ experimental work Ursonate in...
Sligo’s Secret Outsider by Julian A. Dalton (Weekend Arts Section, The Irish Times , Saturday, 24 August 1991) “I have something that will...
Dunne’s Dérives An underground avant-garde venue and concert series running circa 1959 to 1964 in the backroom of one of Dublin’s first gay...
The Keening Women’s Alliance Vocal group. A fugitive women’s improv singing group based in Cork in the 1950s and 1960s. starting out as...
Chancey Briggs (b Clare, 13 Sep. 1892; d Dublin 19 July 1970). Philanthropist. Prominent in the GAELIC LEAGUE as a young man (Briggs...
Theresa Flynn (b Dublin, 13 Aug. 1929; d Dublin, 19 June 1970). Pianist, Teacher. Theresa Flynn is known today primarily as both teacher...
Giolla, Zaftig (b Galway, 13 Aug. 1906; d Galway, 19 June 1959) Musician-composer-poet-field recordist. An early...