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Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann: Video

For Students 9th - 10th
Small video archive from an organization dedicated t the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music. View clips of solo performers and bands playing selections of reels, jigs, and hornpipes on fiddles, flutes, pipes,...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Irish Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Irish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Pbs: Frontline: The Ira and Sinn Fein: Poetry: "The Foggy Dew"

For Students 9th - 10th
A favorite of Irish nationalists from the time that it was written (1919), "The Foggy Dew" is an example of a traditional ballad inspired by one of the most significant events in Ireland's long struggle with Britain: the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Na Piobairi Uilleann [Society of Uilleann Pipers]: History of the Uilleann Pipes

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of an instrument central to the playing of traditional Irish music: the Irish bagpipes known as the uilleann pipes.

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