Cormac De Barra
7 results

Courtney Lewis serves up an energetic slice of Haydn
- Music
- January 27, 2016, 01:00
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(...)

Gallipoli: ‘Shrapnel burst as frequently as the tick of a clock’
- Europe
- April 25, 2015, 01:00
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 (...)

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(...)

‘You can’t really be a Viking if there isn’t a bit of bloodshed’
- Culture
- April 19, 2014, 01:00
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(...)