Sean-nós singing
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Sean-nós singing is unaccompanied, traditional Irish vocal music usually performed in the Irish language. Sean-nós singing usually involves very long melodic phrases with highly ornamented and melisma
Thomas Crofton Croker
An Aisling, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1883)
Nell Ní Chróinín, sean-nós singer from Muskerry
Connemara
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Connemara is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland. The region has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and containing most of the Connacht Iri
Sean-nós singing
…particularly during the folk revival, some sean-nós singers gained popularity in international folk music circles. The most notable of these was the Connemara singer Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (Joe Heaney), who toured America, performing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 before then settling in New York City. Others…
A view of the Connemara coast from Diamond Hill
A view of Derryclare from the N59 road
Irish kern and gallowglass armed with pikes, longswords, and the Lochaber axe. Drawing by Albrecht Dürer, 1521.
Twelve Bens