To feel a little of the energy of that time head to O’Donoghue’s on Baggot Street, still holding sessions more than fifty years on. Ireland’s folk revival was joyous, raucous and relentlessly creative, giving us music from groups like the Dubliners that will still be listened to a century from now. But by the sixties, both were looking a little healthier. The 1940s and 50s were a bleak time for Ireland, and for Irish traditional music too. Sign outside O’Donoghue’s pub © Andrew Montgomery / Lonely Planet Smithfield, with its massive old markets, has been a meeting point between the city and the country for centuries, a place where “Dublin people depended on the countryman to make a living”, so it’s not surprising that you’ll find incredible traditional music still being played here. The Cobblestone is a neighborhood institution, and as Mulligan notes, there’s been a pub on the site since the 15th century. This isn’t done out of purism, but out of an acknowledgment that too much amplification inevitably changes the vibe and is a lot more likely to irritate your neighbors too.
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How to have a perfect day in Dublin without spending a euro The only requirement is that the music be acoustic there is very little amplified music played. There’s a big emphasis on visiting musicians-American, Scottish and even Kurdish. There’s room at the Cobblestone for everything from sean-nós singing classes to Irish dancing lessons. They get involved, and if they’re able to sing a song or play an instrument, they’ll be invited in.” You have a story sometimes or a recitation or a song, it breaks it up a little bit.there’s no MC telling people what’s going on, they just play along and enjoy it. He describes the sessions in his own establishment as “very relaxed.mainly acoustic, mainly traditional music with the occasional singer. The owner Tom Mulligan, a skilled musician himself, has a list of recommendations of his own outside the city, from Cryan’s pub in Carrick-on-Shannon and Tigh Coili’s in Galway City to festivals in Milltown Malbey, Drumshanbo, Tubbercurry and the Fiddlers Weekend in Donegal. It’s a welcoming place, open to locals and tourists alike. They run sessions seven nights a week and a few of the days too, and regularly host some of the best living trad musicians. The Cobblestone pub in Dublin’s Smithfield neighborhood is one well-known spot for traditional music. The Cobblestone pub is famous for trad music sessions © Damien Storan / Getty Images The fight around authenticity and Irish music has been raging for a long time. He also nursed a lifelong hatred of the accordion, calling the piano accordion “the greatest abomination of all”. He and others were trying to keep a folk tradition alive in the age of modern mass media, the radio, the television and the overwhelming cultural forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Seán Ó Riada, a pioneer in both Irish traditional and art music, was instrumental in establishing in the 1960s what a modern “ceili” group would look like. At its heart is a complex distinction between traditional Irish music – that is to say the personal, local and mostly oral tradition of performance and song still faintly found around the country – and the various modern musical genres of “trad”, “Irish folk”, “Celtic” or simply “Irish” music. If you witnessed Ireland’s horrified reaction to the release of Ed Sheeran’s song 'Galway Girl' a few years ago, rest assured, complaining about ersatz Irish music is a proud tradition. So what is ‘real’ traditional Irish music – and, more importantly – how can you experience it in Dublin? Here's your insider's guide to the best places to go and how to get the most out of a traditional Irish session. Scoff, they will, and tell you, that’s not real music. But, you might protest, I want to hear some live music. Say ‘ Temple Bar’ to any Dubliner and watch their eyes roll back into their head – the quaintly-cobbled and bar-filled district is a tourist trap, a non-space of plastic paddywhackery in the heart of the capital.
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