Cormac De Barra

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For Courtney Lewis, above, Haydn is a bedrock of the repertoire. Photograph: Travis Anderson
Courtney Lewis serves up an energetic slice of Haydn

Haydn has not been having a good time with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. A work as popular as his Clock Symphony has been neglected for more t(...)

Susan Grace Bates: Skorsa: The Riddle of the Earth | Album Review
  • Music
  • July 3, 2015, 00:00

The harp has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, with Moya Brennan, Cormac de Barra, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Catriona McKay(...)

Prince Charles, President Michael D Higgins, Prince Harry and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey, at the Commonwealth and Ireland service to Commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landings. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography
Gallipoli: ‘Shrapnel burst as frequently as the tick of a clock’

There are white carnations on the graves of the erstwhile forgotten Irish of V Beach this morning.They were put there by a president and by his wife, (...)

Cormac De Barra and Anne-Marie O’Farrell: Duopoly | Album Review
  • Music
  • February 13, 2015, 00:00

The harp further reinstates itself at the heart of contemporary trad with this sparkling collaboration. The pair’s playful approach to the canon pays (...)

This year’s IMRAM highlight, The Bob Marley Project, is on at the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, this Friday, October 10th, at 8pm
Taking literature in Irish out of the Gaelic ghetto
  • Books
  • October 6, 2014, 12:04

Once upon a time … I was a reader, but not a reader of literature in Irish. I was a speaker of Irish, or a kind of Irish, having been brought up speak(...)

Vikings: the television series stars Gabriel Byrne and Travis Fimmel
‘You can’t really be a Viking if there isn’t a bit of bloodshed’

It is a scene familiar from every primary-school history book. A horde of long-haired, sword-wielding, fearsome-looking foreign marauders run amok (...)

Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra: Affinity
  • Music
  • June 21, 2013, 00:00

Harp and voice are the anchors of Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra’s second album together in three years. “Affinity” aptly describes the duo’s shared(...)