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Belfast folk stalwart Fergus O'Hare on Deep in My Heart, an album of deeply personal songs

In nearly everything Fergus O'Hare does, there is an altruism and a philanthropy at its very heart. ....

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Advertiser.ie - 'It was in the air'

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward. ....

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