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Beannachtai na Feile Padraig trí mBoston

Dia daoibh .. agus beannachtai na feile Padraig trí mBoston !
Beidh mé taisteal go hÉireann an tseachtain seo chugain.
Imreoidh mé ceol tradisiúnta scaithneamh in Éirinn.
Beidh mé ag buail le mo clann agus chéile.
Séamus ó Ceileachair
(Gaeilge foghlaimeoir)

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New television shows this Spring

The following two new television shows will premiering this spring here .
On the FX channel a new program is debuts on March 16th titled ‘Justified‘.  It stars Timothy Olyphant, whose last major television role was Sheriff Seth Bullock on HBO’s ‘Deadwood’, plays U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, a hero who uses violent means when needed.  It [...]

Television updates

There has been a bit of a lull in television programming the past couple of months, well, for the shows that I watch.
CBS’  number one program NCIS had a great season opener and still has an excellent cast and characters, the episodes still have the comraderie and comedy, but I think the stories need a little more action and suspense, perhaps [...]

Trad album launch

The Ewe with the Crooked Horn” is a new trad recording from Colm Gannon (button accordion player from Boston and Connemara), Jesse Smith (fiddler from Baltimore [US] now living in Galway) and John Blake (guitarist from London now living in Dublin).
There are two launches of the new album this week. In Dublin, at Ned O’Shea’s [...]

UCC Trad Fest

UCC’s Trad Fest is on for the first week in February.
Here is the schedule of events
Monday, February 1st
Session at Spailpin Fanac starting at 9:30pm.
Tuesday, February 2nd
Session at Seomra Caidreamh starting at 6pm followed by a ceilí upstairs at 9:30pm.
Wednesday, February 3rd
Free concert by Holly Geraghty (concertina), Jonathan Roche (button accordion) and Matt Griffin (guitar) from 1pm – [...]

Premiere Night on Fox

Human Target premiered on Fox last night at 8pm before the 2-hour season opener for 24

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New season of 24

24 returns for season number 8 with a 2 hour show on January 17th !
The cast includes: Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer;Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O”Brian; Amy Wersching as Renee Walker; Cherry Jones as US President Allison Taylor; Anil Kapoor as President of an Islamic country, and Freddy Prinze Jr. as part of the new CTU team.   The new [...]

Sherlock Holmes

I went to see Sherlock Holmes last night, the film was engaging, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law worked well together, and it was not all action either, had its’ moments of deductive reasoning, even the fighting scenes were good as Holmes mentally planned the blocks and the hits and their physical damage intended in [...]

Tis the season

Tis the season so I thought I’d post some recent photographs of snowy covered trees to perhaps get myself and others in the Christmas Spirit, my Christmas cards to all the Culchies.  Nollaig shona !

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Snow Patrol concerts in Dublin

Snow Patrol are playing at the Olympia Theatre on December 2nd & 3rd.
The ticket prices are €56.80 and €62.70… quite dear given the current economic situation.
I caught them in Boston a couple of years ago.  I like their ‘A Hundred Million Suns’ album, my favourite song on that being ‘The Lightning Strike’.  This video below  [...]

Men of a Certain Age

TNT has a new show premiering in the US on December 7th at 1opm titled ‘Men of a Certain Age’ starring Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher.  Based on the sneak peek, it looks like it will be a good program.

www.tnt.tv/series/menofacertainage

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V: only the beginning…

The fourth episdode of ABC’s V aired this week, here is a preview:

I like that quick view of Anna ‘walking the walk’ and her ‘Bliss’ scene was very interesting as well.
At the end of the show, the shot pulled away from Earth through our solar system to hundreds of ships, the invasion fleet !  I looked [...]

Celtic Night at Club CnaG

There is a Celtic Night at Club Chonradh na Gaeilge at 6 Harcourt Street in Dublin tonight.
You don’t need to be able to speak Irish, Welsh, Breton, Manx, Cornish or Scottish Gaelic to enjoy a great night of music in the basement club between 8 & 10pm – though, if you [secretly, ever] wanted to [...]

The iPod Shuffle

The Boston Globe has a weekly column where it lists an iPod shuffle for some semi-famous person, showing a totally random list of 10 tracks, some of which can be embarrasing I guess.  I thought it would be interesting to see what we’d see from the Culchies here.  Here goes mine……

1: ‘Stop Crying Your Heart [...]

Declan de Barra

Declan is a singer and songwriter from Ireland who has just finished a tour of Europe.
Here is his powerful song ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’ recorded in a Paris church.

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Lorcán Mac Mathúna

Lorcán Mac Mathúna is a composer and Sean Nós singer from Cork now based in Dublin.
Here are some video clips of his performances from his website.
The first song is An Clár Bog Déil from a concert in Cork.
 

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Sci-Fi Television update

‘V’
‘V‘ premiered Tuesday night in the  US and I was quite impressed.  I held off posting this until after the premiere showed in Ireland and Europe.  I really liked the intro ’Where were you when JFK was assisinated?’  ‘Where were you on 9/11 ?’  ‘Where were you this morning ?’ !
The Visitors were quite open with their interests, they need some of [...]

Sharon Shannon ‘Saints & Scoundrels’

I purchased the new recording Saints & Scoundrels from Sharon Shannon, a well known traditional Irish musician from co. Clare and after listening, have a review.   I really like ‘Saints and Angels‘ which Mike Scott sings above, ’Cape Clear‘ which is a traditional air nicely played by Sharon, and ‘The Wild West Wagon Train‘ which is nice [...]

Ennis Trad Festival

The 16th annual Ennis Trad Festival is on for November 5th through the 9th.
http://www.ennistradfestival.com/top_level/festival.asp
Here are the highlights of the festival by date:
Thursday, November 5th
7:30pm at the Templegate Hotel is the Festival launch at the  by Áine Hensey, radio broadcaster with RTE & Raidio na Gaeltachta which is to be followed by a free concert by [...]

Music in Ireland: November

Music in Ireland on the calendar for November
Kevin Doherty at Whelan’s in Dublin @ 8pm (€12).
Kevin, a singer/songwriter originally from Buncrana co. Donegal and a member of Four Men and a Dog, has a forthcoming album titled ‘Telegraph’. Tickets are available via http://www.telegraph.ie/ and you can have a listen to his music at http://www.myspace.com/kevindohertysongs .
November 4th
Martin [...]