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Traditional Irish Music – (Part 3)
The Curse of Cromwell and music in Protestant Ascendancy Ireland. The Elizabethan conquest and subsequent plantations were ultimately resisted in Ireland and in 1641 there was a rebellion. The 1641 rebellion was primarily concerned with…
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Traditional Irish Music (Part 2)
I begin every tour with a statement I was taught a long time ago. “Ireland is a country you feel, not understand” and I still hold this as a great truth about this place. The…
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Traditional Irish Music
The history of music in Ireland can be traced back to ten thousand years ago. Musical instruments like trumpets, horns, rattles and pipes have been found in sies as far back as the…
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History, Public History and Story Telling
Tour guides are not historians. We do not work in that world. One of the great sayings of this business is ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good story’! Wondering about…
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Always Learning
Tour guide students from Portobello Institute doing assessments during training for the National Tour Guide program On Being A Tour Guide The essence of all tour guiding is a mixture of tour mananagement, tour guiding…
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Once upon a time, in a land far far away …
Everything has a beginning and for DMC Tours Ireland it was down on the Dingle peninsula that I began guiding in 1999. It turns out in the ‘Mythological Cycle of Ireland’ this is the place…