Music of Ireland
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Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.
The bodhrán, a traditional Irish drum.
A 16th century Irish Warpipe player
A traditional music session, known in some circles in Irish as a seisiún, a word invented in the 1990s.
Anúna.
Ireland
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest in the world.
Satellite image, October 2010
The Uragh Stone Circle, a Neolithic stone circle in Tuosist, close to Gleninchaquin Park, County Kerry
A folio of the Book of Kells showing Christ enthroned
Remains of the 12th-century Trim Castle in County Meath, the largest Norman castle in Ireland