Fondly remembering Nick Power (RIP) Tramore musicians playing in Taffes, Galway back in 2002. Musicians are Nick Power on Bodhrán with Gerry & Kevin Whelan on the Banjos © Video is with many thanks to Donal OComain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8jRAEhpSQA | The Days of the MV Naomh Éanna, Ireland

If there’s Irish in your story… there’s music in it too. 🎶 Maybe it was sung at a kitchen table. Maybe it echoed in a quiet church hall. Maybe it was shaped into being, by hands that knew how to make a bodhrán. Bodhrán making is a craft passed down through generations - a rhythm carried not just in music, but in memory. Your ancestors might have shaped their own songs from wood and skin, too. Are you familiar with the powerful sound of the Bodhrán? 💚 | Ireland Family History

The History of the Bodhran 1973-1982 Some old black/white and colour clips. It starts with a clip of Galway bodhran maker Mike Vignoles talking about the making of the bodhrans in gaelic and then a music compilation taking from shows such as Fleadh Cheoil, Come West along the Road, Sessions of the 70s and early 1970s Late Late Show broadcasts. My favourite is the Mary Bergin and Johnny Ringo McDonagh contribution from 1982 I think. But Ringo, Paeder mercier, Christy Moore, Marcus Walsh (From Qui