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Shaskeen snippets: Half a century of pure talent

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Traditional music band, Shaskeen, has been a cornerstone of Irish Traditional music and song for over half a century and show no signs of slowing down, ahead of their appearance in the Town Hall Theatre as part of Advertiser Events, we look back through various publications that have covered the group's long history.

Showband legend Johnny Carroll — ‘I’ve always wanted to play my trumpet in Galway Cathedral’

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Showband sensation and dubbed the ‘man with the golden trumpet’, Johnny Carroll, will perform at a A Night of Music for Galway Hospice in aid of the Galway Hospice in the Galway Cathedral on Thursday, November 10.

The virtual Tree of Lights celebration at Galway Hospice takes place online this Sunday at 5pm. Each light on the Galway Memorial Tree is a tribute to a loved one who has passed away, but Covid-19 me

The virtual Tree of Lights celebration at Galway Hospice takes place online this Sunday at 5pm.

Virtual Tree of Lights celebration for Galway Hospice

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The Virtual Tree of Lights Celebration for Galway Hospice takes place online on Sunday 6th December at 5pm.

Galway’s biographer to the stars presents fascinating tale of Paddy Cole

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Galway writer Tom Gilmore, who is fast building a reputation as the biographer of top music stars has added another to his literary stable with his new book King of the Swingers, the official biography of the great Paddy Cole.

Galway musicians to host A Cup Of Music in aid of Galway Hospice

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LEO MORAN of The Saw Doctors, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts, along with Tom Joyce and Carmel and Enda Dempsey will present a special show to raise funds for Galway Hospice.

Independent Radio Galway

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In 1978, RTE was on strike for some time which meant the repair shop in O’Connor TV had nothing to do, so John O’Sullivan and friends built a 30-watt transmitter and this prompted Tom O’Connor, John O’Sullivan, and Eamonn Geary to get together and set up a pirate radio station called Independent Radio Galway. Their studio was in an attic in the courtyard behind Cahill’s shop in William Street, and when this space became too small, they moved to a larger room over Garavans, where Johnny Waldron’s Joke Shop is today. The 199 metre aerial ran from the top of Glynns to the top of Gleesons. Their furniture consisted of two tables, a few chairs, the home-made transmitter, two turntables, and a few minor pieces of equipment.

Big Tom was a massive Stones fan, reveals Galway author of official biography

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Thousands of fans thronged to Castleblayney at the weekend to see a bronze statue of Big Tom unveiled by President Michael D. Higgins and the launch of the official biography titled Big Tom – The King of Irish Country by Galway author and broadcaster Tom Gilmore from Bodane, Tuam.

TG4 tribute show in memory of singer Larry Cunningham

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A letter from Seamus Heaney

Irish traditional music is one of the great survivors of history. Maybe it was because we are an island, way off on our own in the western Atlantic, and until the latter decades of the last  century, out of hearing from the mass cultural movements of popular cinema, radio and TV, especially the modern music from Europe and the US, that something distinctive has survived. As a boy I would only hear traditional music sessions in a few Gaelteacht areas, or from the welcoming Standún family in Spiddal, or at the Féiseanna at An Taibhdhearc, which was more memorable for the day off from school than it was for the music.

 

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