Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
- JDO-18751/1
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- January 1977
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Féile na Bóinne, the Drogheda Folk Festival, was first organised as a weekend festival in January 1976 by a local committee of the Tradition Club of Drogheda, with an emphasis on Co Louth performers. It was next held on a larger scale in October 1977. A great concourse of singers, musicians, and dancers came to the town from all parts of Ireland that year, and parallel sessions of recitals, concerts, workshops, lectures, and sessions were held in the Whitworth Hall, the O’Raghallaighs GAA Club, and other local venues. The festival continued on a smaller scale into the 1980s. Revived in the 1990s, Féile na Bóinne still continues annually as an autumn weekend festival.
Many of the artists at the 1976 and 1977 festivals were photographed in performance by Drogheda professional photographer Joe Dowdall of West Street. His artistic work constitutes a valuable record of traditional music of the period, memorialising older source-singers and musicians who were then being discovered, and the young performers who were learning from them, in what was a heady and exciting period for Irish traditional music. Many of the singers, musicians and dancers pictured here have since died, and it is good to be able to see them in their heyday.
Eithne Ní Uallacháin and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Drogheda mummers and wren boys festival [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Eithne Ní Uallacháin and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall, photographer
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Johnny Moynihan [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Johnny Moynihan, seated singing
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Johnny `Ringo' McDonagh [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Johnny `Ringo' McDonagh, seated playing bodhran
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Donal Maguire [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Donal Maguire, seated playing banjo
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Pat Usher ; and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Pat Usher, seated playing stroh fiddle
Jim McArdle, seated playing concertina
Liz King, seated playing whistle
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Pat Usher ; and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall
Part of Joe Dowdall Collection
Pat Usher, seated playing stroh fiddle
Jim McArdle, seated playing concertina
Liz King, seated playing whistle
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival