Musical Instruments The Celtic people enjoyed festivals and fairs where there would be music and dancing. There was a great feis (festival of music) held ...
Example of Mesolithic Music There is no evidence of any musical instruments in Ireland for this period. However, the evidence of dancing suggests that some form of ...
Bangor Boat Dance This photograph shows couples dancing on their annual works trip to Bangor. As a novelty they travelled from Belfast by boat and the ...
Barn Dance In some parts of Ulster, barn dances were held at certain times of the year, usually in the spring and early summer when the barns had ...
Lambeg drum In summer evenings and especially on the ‘Twelfth’ the sound of the lambeg drum echoed around many parts of Ulster. The sides were made ...
Fife The fife, like the one in the photograph, was made from wood. It was the custom for flute players to steep these older wooden flutes in ...
Orange Tune This well known tune, the sash, was a traditional air put to the words of the famous Orange song.
Flute Band This is a photograph of Ballygowan Flute Band in Co. Down in the 1880's. Flute bands were popular as their instruments were much cheaper ...
Christmas Dance Organised dances were held during important festivals such as Christmas. Most of the dances featured set movements, such as the ...
Hibernian Tune Roddy MacCorley was a well known nationalist song which was widely played during the politically tense years just before the First World ...
