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  1. Blue fiddle, and Ireland's northwest

    Blog: Music Road - 4 August 2011

    Lunasa has been a powerhouse band in the Irish music scene for going on fifteen years, with high energy, crisp musicianship, and musical connections which make every recording and each convert an adventure in both tradition and creativity. It has been reported that President Obama includes tunes from Lunasa as part of his music when he works out.

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  2. Teelin, Ireland Wishes You Were Here

    Blog: Suzy Guese - 8 April 2011

    A redhead behind the wheel, complete with a tan trench coat sounds a bit like a scene from a bad romantic comedy involving Ireland. Bad romantic comedy or my reality, there were often moments on my month in Ireland I felt like I was in a movie. My day in Teelin had that tone. Teelin [...]

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  3. Melodies and Irish fire: Fidil and Edel Fox

    Blog: Music Road - 25 October 2010

    Fire on fire is one way you could describe Donegal fiddle style. Aidan O Donnell, Cíarán Ó Maonaigh, and Damien Mc Geehan, who make up the group Fidil, build that flame higher on Fidil 3.

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  4. donegal: breaking hearts

    Blog: The Road Forks - 18 March 2010

    breaking hearts Glengesh Pass, looking onto Ardara

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  5. Where are you going? Battling Irish Tricksters in the Village of Teelin

    Blog: Suzy Guese - 15 March 2010

    It is freezing cold. No, it is colder than freezing cold. It is June in Ireland and I am dressed in my newly purchased Donegal wool sweater. To make the cold even more bone chilling, we can’t seem to get the peat fire started. At the top of the northwest end of Ireland in Donegal County, [...]

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