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Not long now until .bury embarks on her Australian tour 🇦🇺🐨🦘Tickets at www.niamhbury.com
04/02/2025

Not long now until .bury embarks on her Australian tour 🇦🇺🐨🦘

Tickets at www.niamhbury.com

We’re delighted to hear today that two of our artists have been nominated for the 2025 Ticketmaster Ireland awards! Iri...
27/01/2025

We’re delighted to hear today that two of our artists have been nominated for the 2025 Ticketmaster Ireland awards!

Irish Rising Star of the Year – NIAMH BURY
Irish Artist of the Year – CHRISTY MOORE

The Awards are public vote, please take 2 minutes out of your day to vote for both of our artists! Voting link in stories 🔗💚

.bury

Don’t miss .bury and at Celtic Connections in Glasgow this week on Thursday and Friday evening.Lemoncello play tonight ...
23/01/2025

Don’t miss .bury and at Celtic Connections in Glasgow this week on Thursday and Friday evening.

Lemoncello play tonight at 7.30 in Saint Luke’s with &
Niamh will play at 8pm on Friday in The Old Fruitmarket with

join on the road on his UK and Ireland tour in March and April. What an incredible pairing that is! 🔥
22/01/2025

join on the road on his UK and Ireland tour in March and April.

What an incredible pairing that is! 🔥

We are so delighted to see all three of the incredible artists who released albums on Claddagh Records in 2024 receive n...
21/01/2025

We are so delighted to see all three of the incredible artists who released albums on Claddagh Records in 2024 receive nominations for this years RTÉ Folk Awards.

.bury is kicking off a very exciting year of lovely live dates today at .nl 🤍🧚🎶Tickets available at NiamhBury.com ✨Poste...
15/01/2025

.bury is kicking off a very exciting year of lovely live dates today at .nl 🤍🧚🎶

Tickets available at NiamhBury.com ✨

Poster by

THE 6.40p.m. FROM AMIENS STREET (Westland Row)O, is it nineteen fortyOr a thousand years ago?We are not going home by tr...
24/12/2024

THE 6.40p.m. FROM AMIENS STREET (Westland Row)

O, is it nineteen forty
Or a thousand years ago?
We are not going home by train
We’re riding through the snow.
Riding our horses warily,
Among the ancient trees,
Strange beasts are howling fearfully
Somewhere deep in Meath.
We saw beside the Boyne
A kern keeping guard,
But we waved our green silk banners
As we galloped across the ford.
We saw upon a hill
A Christian church in flames:
Some said it was a candlelight
But it might have been the Danes.
‘O listen to the chanting
Of the monks in Monasterboice’
An old man said, and pulled
His horse’s bridle tight.
There’s John de Courcy ahead of us-
What! It cannot be
Perhaps ‘tis Collier the Robber
Heading for Dunleer
Though our lamps are cold blue ghosts
We ride in triumph north
Cheering, laughing. . . What voice said to me
‘Change at Dundalk’
Some thought that we were in a train-
But my cloak was stiff with snow!
We were riding home to Christmas
A thousand years ago.

Patrick Kavanagh 1904 – 1967.

‘A Christmas Childhood’ by Patrick Kavanagh(Read by Sharon Corr)One side of the potato-pits was white with frost -How wo...
19/12/2024

‘A Christmas Childhood’ by Patrick Kavanagh
(Read by Sharon Corr)

One side of the potato-pits was white with frost -
How wonderful that was, how wonderful!
And when we put our ears to the paling-post
The music that came out was magical.

The light between the ricks of hay and straw
Was a hole in Heaven’s gable. An apple tree
With its December-glinting fruit we saw -
O you, Eve, were the world that tempted me.

To eat the knowledge that grew in clay
And death the germ within it! Now and then
I can remember something of the gay
Garden that was childhood’s. Again.

The tracks of cattle to a drinking-place,
A green stone lying sideways in a ditch,
Or any common sight, the transfigured face
Of a beauty that the world did not touch.

My father played the melodion
Outside at our gate;
There were stars in the morning east
And they danced to his music.

Across the wild bogs his melodion called
To Lennons and Callans.
As I pulled on my trousers in a hurry
I knew some strange thing had happened.

Outside in the cow-house my mother
Made the music of milking;
The light of her stable-lamp was a star
And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle.

A water-hen screeched in the bog,
Mass-going feet
Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes,
Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel.

My child poet picked out the letters
On the grey stone,
In silver the wonder of a Christmas townland,
The winking glitter of a frosty dawn.

Cassiopeia was over
Cassidy’s hanging hill,
I looked and three whin bushes rode across
The horizon — the Three Wise Kings.

And old man passing said:
‘Can’t he make it talk -
The melodion.’ I hid in the doorway
And tightened the belt of my box-pleated coat.

I nicked six nicks on the door-post
With my penknife’s big blade -
there was a little one for cutting to***co.
And I was six Christmases of age.

My father played the melodion,
My mother milked the cows,
And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned
On the Virgin Mary’s blouse

Attention ØXN fans - still some ØXN merch & limited edition vinyl available on CladdaghRecords.com 🚨 Celebrate the brill...
16/12/2024

Attention ØXN fans - still some ØXN merch & limited edition vinyl available on CladdaghRecords.com 🚨

Celebrate the brilliant year that ØXN has had with a beanie, long sleeve t-shirt, short sleeve tee and more!

Order before midday on Thursday, 19th December to arrive for Christmas! 🎄

What a year it’s been for Niamh Bury and her debut album Yellow Roses! 💛🥀 Mojo has ranked Yellow Roses their #3 Folk al...
12/12/2024

What a year it’s been for Niamh Bury and her debut album Yellow Roses! 💛🥀

Mojo has ranked Yellow Roses their #3 Folk album of the Year

http://xn--rt-cja.ie/ has named Yellow Roses as its #6 best Irish album of the year - https://www.rte.ie/culture/2024/1212/1485706-the-10-best-irish-albums-of-2024-lauren-murphy-sounds-off/

KLOF has named Yellow Roses in its Top 10 albums of the year - https://klofmag.com/2024/12/danny-neills-top-10-albums-of-2024/

Congratulations Bury

We’re giving this Claddagh Records Christmas Bundle! 🎄We are giving away this incredible bundle for Christmas, jam-packe...
12/12/2024

We’re giving this Claddagh Records Christmas Bundle! 🎄

We are giving away this incredible bundle for Christmas, jam-packed with Claddagh artists and releases!💚

For your chance to win - follow us, like this post and tag a friend. Share to your story for a bonus entry 🎁

Bundle Includes:
Christy Moore’s - ‘A Terrible Beauty’ + Christy Moore SIGNED ‘Boy in the Wild’ lyric sheet
Lemoncello - ’Lemoncello’
Niamh Bury - ‘Yellow Roses’
ØXN - ‘CYRM’
‘Reel to Real: Garech Browne & Claddagh Records’ Book

*Winner will be contacted via DM on December 18th.*

Still thinking about Lemoncello’s gig last month🌛📸
11/12/2024

Still thinking about Lemoncello’s gig last month🌛

📸

Some Behind the Scenes pics from the filming of Christy Moore’s second-ever music video ‘Boy In The Wild’, starring Liam...
10/12/2024

Some Behind the Scenes pics from the filming of Christy Moore’s second-ever music video ‘Boy In The Wild’, starring Liam Cunningham and Ollie West.

Watch the full ‘Boy in the Wild’ music video on YouTube now.

Photos by FaolĂĄn Carey

Christmas at LuggalaSeventy years ago Christmas at Luggala was a lively affair … guests of Lady Oonagh, Garech and Tara...
05/12/2024

Christmas at Luggala

Seventy years ago Christmas at Luggala was a lively affair … guests of Lady Oonagh, Garech and Tara included Lucien Freud, Brendan Behan and his mother Kathleen. Freud painted a portrait of Garech which sold for over €7 million in recent years.
Browne was 16 when he sat for the 34-year-old Freud at Luggala. The result was “a jewel of a painting”, according to Tom Eddison, a contemporary art specialist at Sotheby’s in London.

“It is funny with Freud, you don’t really get a grip of how good he was until you see these things in person, especially these works from the 1950s which you don’t see very often.

“It is so precise and so beautifully executed. It is a really extraordinary painting, a very tender and beautiful portrait,” he said.

Freud first visited Luggala with his then wife, Kitty Garman, in the 1940s when Browne’s mother, the socialite Oonagh Guinness, reigned supreme. Freud and Garman were to divorce and the artist married into the family, eloping to Paris with Browne’s cousin Lady Caroline Blackwood in 1953

05/12/2024

This competition is now closed! Congrats to Damien Dixon on being the winner!

With Garech Browne and Claddagh Records on this week's Gamechangers, we're delighted to be giving away one copy of 'Real to Reel', which chronicles the stories of both the world-renowned Claddagh Records record label and the extraordinary life of its founder Garech Browne.

The 228-pp hardcover book is accompanied by Masters of Their Craft, The Claddagh Collection LP presenting 17 remastered tracks from Claddagh’s immensely rich catalogue, including a never-released-before poem from PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY and T.S ELIOT PRIZE-winning poet Paul Muldoon.

Like, share and tag a friend who you think would like this and we'll announce the winner next week!

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09/11/2024

When I started working on what grew into this album, having a Number One upon its release, was far from my mind. Thanks to all you listeners and to all at Claddagh for this great buzz.
Shine On.
Christy.

We are delighted to announce that Christy Moore’s new album ‘A Terrible Beauty’ is Ireland’s #1 album! Congratulations ...
08/11/2024

We are delighted to announce that Christy Moore’s new album ‘A Terrible Beauty’ is Ireland’s #1 album!

Congratulations Christy!

We are very saddened to hear of the passing of the wonderful Kathleen Watkins. Kathleen joined us on the Patrick Kavanag...
07/11/2024

We are very saddened to hear of the passing of the wonderful Kathleen Watkins.

Kathleen joined us on the Patrick Kavanagh Almost Everything project in 2022 for which she recorded a wonderful rendition of “In Memory of My Mother”

May Kathleen Rest in Peace

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Videos

Christy Moore discusses the stunning front cover artwork by @martingale1976 for ‘A Terrible Beauty’ with Leagues O’Toole (@foggy_notions) at our exclusive listening event last year.

‘Harsh Truths’ by @lemoncello___ is one years old 🎂🎂

Throwback to @oxnmusic epic set at @alltogethernow.ie last summer 😳🤯

We still can’t get over this @niamh.bury cover of @leonardcohen ‘Everybody Knows’ 🤯

A short clip of Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘Stony Grey Soil’ read by @presidentirl as part of our 2022 album ‘Almost Everything...’ celebrating the incredible poetry of Patrick Kavanagh, with artists such as Bono, Aisling Bea, Hozier, Christy Moore, Aidan Gillen and many more. Animated by the wonderful @cianwho & @barbaraofthesun

Live from @whelanslive main stage. @lemoncello___ blew us away performing ‘Dopamine’ on @fanningatwhelans last week.

Tune into @fanningatwhelans on @virginmediaireland tonight at 11pm to see @niamh.bury chat and play some gorgeous music 📺🤍 #fanningatwhelans #liveandrising

A snippet from Christy Moore’s album listening event for ‘A Terrible Beauty’, where Christy speaks to Leagues O’Toole about the artwork for the album. #christymoore #aterriblebeauty

@niamh.bury last night at Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin performing the brilliant ‘Pianos in the Snow’ off of her debut album ‘Yellow Roses’ 💛 Congratulations on an incredible show, Niamh! 👏☘️ #irishmusic #niamhbury

The live video for @niamh.bury’s ‘Geordie’ is here 🖤 Shot on Dublin’s Sandymount beach, directed by @stephen_mogerley_filmmaker Watch now on YouTube

Christy Moore performing his new song ‘Cumann na Mná’ at the first of his 12 upcoming sold out gigs at @vicar_st #christymoore #aterriblebeauty

Christy Moore’s ‘Boy in the Wild’ music video starring Liam Cunningham & Ollie West out Friday…

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