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The Big Fellow

Johnny McEvoy sings a ballad to the memory of Michael Collins with extracts from Neil Jordan's film.


John Joe Kelly

John Joe Kelly plays an amazing bodhran solo at the Irish Folk Festival Balver Hoehle on August 4th, 2007. John Joe began to learn Irish music at St Wilfrid's branch of Comhaltas along with his sister Grace back in the early 1980. Grace performs each Wednesday night at the Union pub in Levenshulme.


D'Unbelievables

D'Unbelievables is a popular comedy routine on RTE. There are some on this side of the water who have concerns about this type of material reinforcing negative stereotypes of the Irish in this country. Others say it's Irish material for an Irish audience and so is in a different category to the Comedians and Fr Ted. Here's a sample.