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3 weeks ago | 
journalofmusic.com | Peter Browne |Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh |Kate Ellis
West Cork Music has announced the programme for the 2025 Masters of Tradition festival. Taking place in Bantry, Co. Cork, from Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24 August, the festival, curated by fiddle player Martin Hayes, features five days of concerts, talks and late night performances.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
insidestory.org.au | Peter Browne
The backers of Donald Trump’s attack on his country’s institutions — an assortment of plutocrats, activists, far-right think tanks, conservative academics and cynical media moguls — hold a constellation of not always compatible beliefs.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
insidestory.org.au | Peter Browne
“What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?” asked the American media academic Michael Socolow in the Conversation after Donald Trump won the presidential election. Underlying his question was the assumption that “facts” have become unmoored from reality — that there may be no going back to a time when they could be distinguished from opinions. But several intriguing studies suggest that this might not be entirely correct.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
journalofmusic.com | Peter Browne
Peadar Ó Riada's new book - Ceoltóirí Chualann, The Band That Changed the Course of Irish Music will be the subject of an interview with Peter Browne as part of the Dublin Book Festival. The venue is The Royal Irish Academy at 6.30pm on Thursday 7th November 2024. Admission is €6 and booking is required. WebsiteAdd a Listing Please note that some listings are added by third parties.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
journalofmusic.com | Peter Browne
5 poems put to music by other artists and by Kev Michael Stevenson. WebsiteAdd a Listing Please note that some listings are added by third parties. The Journal of Music does not take responsibility for the content or accuracy of listings published by third parties on this site. The Journal of Music reserves the right to edit or delete listings. Click here to add a listing, login or register.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
journalofmusic.com | Peter Browne
Clifden Arts 2024 closes with a noonday duet concert "One For the Road" with Peter Browne (pipes, whistle) and Gerry Harrington (fiddle). An hour of quality traditional music from two accomplished players - both members of The Lark on the Strand. WebsiteAdd a Listing Please note that some listings are added by third parties. The Journal of Music does not take responsibility for the content or accuracy of listings published by third parties on this site.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
wlrfm.com | Data Centres |Peter Browne
Suir Engineering will proudly sponsor WLR's coverage of this year's Amgen Irish Open at Royal County Down. Ray Scott will be on site across the course of the tournament, bringing you all the action as it happens from Irish golf's premier calendar event. Suir Engineering are a leading provider of innovative and sustainable electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and high voltage engineering solutions for clients in the Life Sciences, Data Centres and EP&R sectors.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
journalofmusic.com | Peter Browne
THE LARK ON THE STRAND - SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE CÓBHSeosaimhín Ní Bheaglaíoch (songs), Charlie Piggott (accordion), Gerry Harrington (fiddle), Peter Browne (pipes)The Lark on the Strand is a four-person group who come together for occasional concerts and tours.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
insidestory.org.au | Peter Browne |Nic Maclellan
Sonia Backès, the leading conservative anti-independence politician of her generation in New Caledonia, believes that — like “oil and water” — Kanak cannot mix with non-Kanak. The two groups have “insurmountable antagonisms,” the Southern Province president argued during a major speech on 14 July. Backès heads a coalition of conservative parties opposed to independence in New Caledonia. The timing of her comments — on Bastille Day, France’s national holiday — was no accident.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
insidestory.org.au | Peter Browne
Many years ago — late last century in fact — I spent a couple of weeks filling in as a producer on one of ABC radio’s afternoon programs in Melbourne. Each day we’d comb through the morning’s papers looking for interview ideas that might have escaped the four programs before ours in the day’s schedule. My secret was to scan through the Financial Review rather than the Age or the Herald Sun, which had already been thoroughly plundered.
