Pisrógs

Invention of Music


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JOIN the boys as they discuss everything under the big sonic sun - From the mythological invention of music, to the instruments of the past, to the magic behind the instruments and their players . . . A meal for the ears!
“NO enemy speaks slightingly of Irish Music, and no friend need fear to boast of it. It is without a rival, Its antique war-tunes, such as those of O'Byrne, O'Donnell, MacAlistrum and Brian Boru, stream and crash upon the ear like the warriors of a hundred glens meeting; and you are borne with them to battle, and they and you charge and struggle amid cries and battle-axes and stinging arrows. Did ever a wail make man's marrow quiver and fill his nostrils with the breath of the grave, like the ululu or A Muire ir Truag of Munster” - Thomas Davis
ULULU, ULULU!
MUSIC has a place at the core of one's imagination of the Irish 'scene' a place so central that its place within the setting can often be overlooked:
A dimly lit room, pipes and pints, feet tapping, chats going, and all there for the sound produced by fiddles, bodhrans, whistles and hums.
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PisrógsBy Luke Pisrogs Conroy & Aran Pisrogs Reidy

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