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| Terry Moylan is a piper.
He was the first to produce collections of traditional sets, and was primarily
instrumental, with his wife Kay, and Jerry and Anne O’Reilly, in founding
Brooks Academy. He has edited several books on Irish music and dance and
has also contributed articles to various publications. |
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| Jerry O’Reilly also plays
the pipes but is better known, throughout Ireland, as a singer. He is one
of the committee of the Góilín singers club which meets every
Friday night in Dublin from September to May. |
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| Irene Martin has a long
history in organising traditional music and song events in Dublin. A singer
herself, for years she was involved in two of Dublin's most successful
folk clubs, the Universal and the Coffee Kitchen, and was one of the organisers
of the Dublin Traditional Music Festival. |
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| Mary Friel has also had
considerable experience of organising traditional music events as a member
of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. She is a step-dancer,
plays the concertina and sings. |
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| Eileen O’Doherty is one
of Ireland’s leading collectors and publishers of set-dances. Her two collections
include over forty dances, all of them notated from primary sources. |
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| Terry Cullen has been involved
in traditional music since his youth, both as a dancer and singer. |
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