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Traditional Irish Music – (Part 3)

Jim Dempsey / August 11, 2023

The Curse of Cromwell and music in Protestant Ascendancy Ireland. The Elizabethan conquest and subsequent plantations were ultimately resisted in […]

I begin every tour with a statement I was taught a long time ago. “Ireland is a country you feel,

The history of music in Ireland can be traced back to ten thousand years ago. Musical instruments like

Jim Dempsey / April 25, 2023

Tour guides are not historians. We do not work in that world. One of the great sayings of this business

Jim Dempsey / April 25, 2023

Tour guide students from Portobello Institute doing assessments during training for the National Tour Guide program On Being A Tour

Jim Dempsey / April 25, 2023

Everything has a beginning and for DMC Tours Ireland it was down on the Dingle peninsula that I began guiding