Friday, 6 May 2011
Eamonn & Geraldine Cotter on Flute and Piano
"Eamon Cotter & his sister Geraldine from Kilmaley, Ennis, County Clare play two hornpipes: The Stony Steps and Corn Phíopa na Gréine. Eamonn Cotter is a highly respected flute player, maker, and teacher from Kilmaley, County Clare. He plays with the popular group Shaskeen and has released his own solo recording 'Eamonn Cotter: Traditional Music from County Clare', available on CD and cassette... Eamonn teaches privately and at workshops and summer schools, including the Willie Clancy Summer School." Posted on Youtube on the 10th of April 2008 by clarebannerman. Click for an interview with Eamonn Cotter...
Eamonn Cotter playing two hornpipes
"Eamonn playing two hornpipes: Thomand Gate & The Souvenir". Posted on Youtube on the 16th of May 2009 by ShaskeenReel.
Matchmaking in Lisdoonvarna 2009
"Video of the Matchmaking Festival which takes place every September in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare." BBC News, 14th September, 2009. Posted on Youtube on the 16th of September 2009 by peterkinvara.
Matchmaking Lisdoonvarna 2008
"German TV piece about the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking festival held every September in Co Clare Ireland." Posted on Youtube on the 27th of October 2008 by peterkinvara.
Children’s Books Top Library Loans
Public Lending Remuneration (PLR) figures recently released show that, despite the huge range of other sources of entertainment available, reading continues to be a popular activity among Irish children with eight children’s authors making it into the top ten ‘most-borrowed-from-the-library’ list for 2010. The lists are compiled by the Library Council from information supplied to the Public Lending Remuneration (PLR) Scheme by public libraries. There are over 14 million visits to Irish public libraries each year, resulting in 14 million loans of books and the PLR scheme ensures that qualifying authors, whose books are loaned by public libraries, will receive remuneration in respect of such loans. 10,011 authors resident in thirty-two countries were registered for Irish PLR in 2010. €319,558.75 was paid out to 4,639 authors in respect of their total library loans. Four authors received the maximum payment of €3,000, and the rate-per-loan was 8.88 cent.
The top 10 most borrowed authors in 2010 were
1. Roderick Hunt
2. Daisy Meadows
3. Francesca Simon
4. Enid Blyton
5. Jacqueline Wilson
6. Roger Hargreaves
7. James Patterson
8. Nora Roberts
9. Roald Dahl
10. Terry Deary
Roderick Hunt, the author of over 300 titles in the Oxford Reading Tree literacy series, is Irish children’s top choice for the second successive year with over 115,000 library loans. Daisy Meadows, creator of the Rainbow Magic series, was the second most-borrowed author, coming in just ahead of Francesca Simon of Horrid Henry fame. Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl’s enduring appeal to young readers was evident again this year with the inclusion of both authors in the top ten list. Roger Hargreaves – the Mr Men creator – also made the list, alongside the ever popular Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson. Terry Deary’s Horrible series continue to delight young readers.
Prolific US author James Patterson is the most popular adult fiction author with almost 65,000 library loans. The only other author for adults in the top ten list is Nora Roberts who writes under her own name and, as J.D. Robb, is a prolific author across a wide range of genres – romance, thriller and paranormal.
The top 10 most borrowed titles in 2010 were
1. Official Driver Theory Test by the Road Safety Authority
2. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
4. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
6. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
7. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
8. The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson
9. Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone by J. K. Rowling
10. The BFG by Roald Dahl
For further details see www.plr.ie
DIPPAM (Documenting Ireland - Parliament, People and Migration)
Launched recently at Queen's University, Belfast, DIPPAM (Documenting Ireland - Parliament, People and Migration) is a new, free, online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland, and the history of Irish migration. Records are concentrated in the period dated from the 18th to the 20th centuries. DIPPAM is a searchable virtual library and it brings together into an accessible form and enhances three existing resources: EPPI (the Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1800-1922); the IED (Irish Emigration Database), containing runs of emigrant letters, newspaper extracts and other emigration-related materials for the 18th-early 20th centuries; and VMR (Voices of Migration and Return) a collection of 90 interviews with 20th century Ulster migrants. This resource has been created by a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, University of Ulster, the Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh) and Libraries NI, and funded by the AHRC, and can be accessed via http://www.dippam.ac.uk.
Edel Fox, Caitlin NicGabhann, and Kate McNamara on concertinas
"Edel Fox, Caitlin NicGabhann, and Kate McNamara perform during a presentation on the great County Clare concertina player Elizabeth Crotty. Catskill Irish Arts Week, East Durham, New York, July 2009. Here they play The Spike Island Lasses, first in the common four-part version, then in the old two-part version that Mrs. Crotty played." Posted on Youtube on the 2nd of August 2010 by garyamartin.
Knappogue, from "Around Ireland in 80 Days"
"Extract from BBC NI's travel show 'Around Ireland in 80 Days', featuring Knappogue Castle banquets, County Clare." Posted on Youtube on the 23rd of December 2009 by 22diamonds22.
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