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Lecturer in Folklore/Béaloideas UCC.Flute player. PhD (Dingle Wren).Board member @artscouncil_ie @phoenixdingle Knitter & GAA enthusiast 💚💛

Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
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Ceol binn Ashling Murphy. Beannacht léi.
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Finally got the name on the door 🤣
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@aoifegranville
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This is Dingle! This is tradition! Daingean Uí Chúis Abú ❤️🤍❤️🤍
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
2 years
So got mansplained to today over on FB about how #NollaignamBan wasn’t a proper tradition! Yes, someone said that to a West Kerry Woman!! Rightly riled me up for our dinner out & to wear my fave Irish women designers! Nollaig na mBan Shona a Mhnáibh - Is traidisiún iontach é ❤️
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
3 years
Oh Dingle you beaut ❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Coinnle agus ceol d’Ashling i nDaingean Uí Chúis. #VigilforAshling
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My grandmother Léan Daly always looked forward to Nollaig na mBan & visiting friends, chatting, eating cake & drinking punch! Amhránaí, bean leigheas traidisiúnta & bean gur bhreá lei a bheith ag caint (must be where I get it 🤣) #NollaignamBan GRMA @bealoideasucd for 1st 2 pics
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Aoife Granville
3 years
The last bit of sunset alongside some bright stars at Inch Strand this evening! ❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Thinking of Aisling Murphy this morning, her family, friends, students & the traditional music community in Tullamore. Terrifying and so so tragic. Suaimhneas síorraí dá h-anam óg.
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Aoife Granville
4 years
I may have gone a little overboard with the fairy lights but sending light & grá ó Shráid Eoin dos na héinne atá ag obair, ag fulaingt nó in ísle brí. #ShineYourLight #LonraighdoSholas
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Obair an lae..couldn’t stop when I started. Anyone for a Cros Bríde?! #l álebríde #BrigidsDay #brigidscross
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Lovely to come back to this after a great Dingle win this evening! Daingean Uí Chúis ag féachaint 💜💜💗💗
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
5 years
Two great photos from @duchas_ie @bealoideasucd of my Granny Léan Daly and my great granny with my twin aunts Bríd & Maura! Lovely to see these! #b éaloideas #folklore #clann #archive
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Aoife Granville
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Nóinín - our new addition to the family! Ó Bhaile an Fheirtéirigh ach tá sí ag socrú isteach go maith ar an mbaile! #coile án #puppy #PuppyDay
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Hard to beat West Kerry on days like today….
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Happy new year from the rebels in Dingle! Thankful we managed to keep our tradition unbroken by playing a few tunes in Sráid Eoin tonight. 💙🤍❤️🤍
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Aoife Granville
2 years
My former music alma mater - Kerry School of Music - just posted this on FB! #theressomethinginmyeye
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Aoife Granville
4 months
If you only watch one video today…this is beautiful. Well done Páidí, Nell & @EdwinaGuckian ❤️
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Edwina Guckian
4 months
We made a little video about delivering the St. Brigid’s crosses to our neighbours and the traditions around it. It’s part of a bigger video and project by @AircDamhsa called The Year in Ireland which you can watch here: Thanks to @artscouncil_ie
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2 years
The first box of many books I nearly moved to the attic last year having given up on academia! Thankfully moving them to an office at @UCC & excited about finally getting back to teaching & research. Shellac was ruined in the move 🤣 #newyearnewjob #folklore #carnival #festival
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Aoife Granville
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A great start to the Wran with Dreoilín na nÓg from Scoil Iognáid Rís! Happy Wrans Day!
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Aoife Granville
2 years
I did not know Ashling but when I watched this clip earlier was struck by the stunning beauty of her playing & decided to share. So sweet, musical, graceful & such poise for a young musician.
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Aoife Granville
2 years
What a wonderful lady & such an important interview. #TommyTiernanShow
@RTEOne
RTÉ One
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"So what happened yesterday is pretty grey." @Tommedian asks global dementia ambassador, Helen Rochford-Brennan about living with short term memory. #TommyTiernanShow
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Aoife Granville
2 years
There it is now! Viewable at @glucksman @UCC until Sunday.
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Aoife Granville
4 years
A set of reels I recorded yesterday for #Quarantunes Peg McGraths & the Mystery Reel. Lucky enough to have a bit more time to play these days! Hope you are all keeping safe & well! #flute #irishflute
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Aoife Granville
2 years
We didn’t sound too bad for a band who haven’t played together in so many years 🤣 #fiddlesticks @FiddleFair @CorkFolkFest
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Aoife Granville
9 months
The most beautiful lunchtime at the screening of ‘All this Unreal Time’..as Max Porter said…in the safety of the Hickson embrace! GRMA @maryhickson @SafeHarbourFest Looking forward to the rest of the weekend ❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Brilliant to see all the young rowers out in Dingle tonight & queues waiting for the boats. Traidisiún na naomhóga á choimeád beo.
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Go raibh maith agat @cathmartingreen as an deis seo. Looking forward to working with @kevinrafter @MaureenKennell5 & the board of @artscouncil_ie for the next few years.
@journalofmusic
The Journal of Music
2 years
// Six New Members Appointed to Arts Council Board // Appointees include traditional flute-player Aoife Granville, Linda Coogan Byrne of the Why Not Her? campaign, and former Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival Róise Goan.
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Could I look any happier?! Finally got to meet this legend today. Fear uasail ceart - John Sheehan ❤️
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Aoife Granville
1 year
All set for the day 💙🤍 #dinglewren
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Swore i wouldn’t collect rushes for my folklore classes again but here I am 🤣🤣 Brigid’s Crosses all week now!
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Aoife Granville
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This air, Eamon a’ Chnoic, has been in my head for the past couple of days prob because it was my uncle Johnny’s anniversary yesterday. He loved it & always asked me to play it. A bit rough and ready but anyway…
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Aoife Granville
2 years
The wonderful craftwork of Billy Granville and worn by his granddaughter. Work of art. #straws #dinglewren #tradition
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Aoife Granville
5 months
Nollaig Shona ó Dhaingean Uí Chúis ❤️🤍
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Aoife Granville
1 year
While we had a rocky relationship during the past year or so I was mad about James since young. So many tunes, trips away, songs & stories shared & will always appreciate his help with songs especially. Níl aon dabht ach ná beidh a leithéid aríst ann. Misseálfaimid go mor é
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Delighted to be heading back to work at the Folklore Dept @UCC although I’ll be sad to leave @ionadculturtha & Gaeltacht Mhúscraí. Back to the books!
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Saol ó Dheas RnaG
3 years
Stiúrthóir @ionadculturtha Aoife Ní Ghrainbhéil linn anois, beidh sí ag críochnú san ionad an mhí seo chughainn agus ag tabhairt fé chúrsa nua le @UCC . Guímid na haon rath uirthi @RTERnaG @aoifegranville
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1 year
Tara Kennedy leading the drummers of the Dingle Fife & Drum tonight. Tara was one of the first female drummers in the Dingle marching traditions in the 1990s alongside Cailín Guiheen. A lovely March this evening for #NollaignamBan
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Did we not just agree last year to send @FlathartaSeamus @caoimhe_fla & Co to #Eurovision2022 ?! #Eurosong2022
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Fadó fadó i Sráid Eoin!
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Aoife Granville
1 year
When I shared pic of Granny,people chatted also with fondness of my Grand-aunt Julia.A wonderful lady who worked for yrs to make up a dowry to marry in Dún Chaoin. She spent her life looking after students & visitors & loved ball nights! Bean iontach láidir. I think of her often
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Our friend @Meadephotograph took this pic of us near the house our Granny grew up in at Com Dhineoil…her daily view of the Blaskets where she later lived for a time. Despite the cailín gaelach vibe with the green gúna I love this pic. Grma Mike!
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Aoife Granville
2 years
For Séamus MacMathúna: Cois a Ghaorthaidh. The 1st air I learned from Séamus many moons ago. He opened up our wonderful song tradition & air playing to me & gave me lots of opportunities. Bead i gcónaí buíoch do. Beannacht leis.
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Go hálainn a bheith thar n-ais ar champus inniu @UCC
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Dingle is looking even more fab than usual with all the wonderful art for #f éilenabealtaine Such a lovely atmosphere around town today. #daingeanu íchúisabú
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Aoife Granville
3 years
So something is brewing with this list of wonderful fluting women! More info on the way over the next couple of days. ❤️❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Campus ag féachaint go hálainn inniu @UCC
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Aoife Granville
6 months
In full flight at Sneem Storytelling Festival last weekend (what was I saying?!🤣) A lovely festival in a beautiful place. 📷 Tom Naiman
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Cnoc Bhréanainn & foxgloves ❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
This clip is from a full video recorded by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in 2017.
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Aoife Granville
4 months
Cuid de shaothair mic léinn Béaloideasa ar maidin. Our @UCCFolklore students made some lovely crosses this morning!
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Aoife Granville
11 months
Fair play Emma O Kelly. Can’t even begin to imagine the frustration of staff at RTÉ
@PureGrand
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Emma O’Kelly snapped! Obsessed
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It was a great honour to play for Teresa Gardiner’s funeral yesterday. I was utterly gobsmacked when the family presented me with Teresa’s flute. I’m not sure what else to say today but it is a tremendous privilege. Suaimhneas síorraí dá hanam.
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Aoife Granville
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Ag súil go mór leis. A great privilege to be involved in this event with storyteller Nuala Hayes & artist Rita Duffy in a few weeks! Ag ceiliúradh Peig & a chuid scéalta ❤️
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Aoife Granville
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Mo sheanathair Seán Mhaidhc. My grandfather Seán Mhaidhc at home in Feothanach probably taken in the late 1970s!
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Darna pioc ar maidin! Second Pfizer this morning. 💙💙 #vaccinated
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Aoife Granville
1 year
A sad day for Dingle & our traditions. The band were left with no choice in this decision…bainfimid taitneamh as Nollaig na mBan ach…fireworks a priority over tradition doesn��t sit very well with me!
@kerryman_ie
The Kerryman
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Band to fall silent in Dingle on New Year’s Eve due to health and safety fears
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Such a privilege to have been part of the line-up last night at @ITMADublin Drawing from the Well concert at @NCH_Music Árd Oíche.
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Muiris Ó Rocháin, the Ferriters, Foleys & all our former wran stalwarts would have so proud to see such numbers in the Sráid Eoin Wran yesterday. What a day! We never died a winter yet 💙🤍 #oldcomrades #tradition
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My NY resolution last year was to knit every day.I got to day 271 & for some reason completely forgot that day!I have managed to make some nice bits through the year & hopefully will manage every day this year! Does me the world of good! #knitting #cniot áil
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Aoife Granville
3 years
An pioc fachta age Maidhc Léan inniu! Dad’s 1st vaccine today. So lovely to see friends & neighbours happily exiting the Ionad Leighis in Dingle today! Buíochas leis an Ionad Leighis as an seirbhís & an crunchie 🤣
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Aoife Granville
1 year
From International Women’s Day 2021 but worth sharing again, alongside some of my favourite people & flute players & edited by the wonderful @EdwinaGuckian Lá na mBan Sona! #IWD2023
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Aoife Granville
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What a beautiful funeral for Shane McGowan…tradition, Gaoluinn, ceol álainn ❤️ Gorgeous send off. Beannacht leis an Laoch é fhéin
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Bhí gig againn! We had a gig today in one of our favourite places - An Díseart! We used to beg the nuns to bring us out to thesegardens on fine days when in school 🤣 buiochas leis an Díseart & an lucht féachana álainn ❤️❤️
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2 months
Another great 6am march in Dingle this morning. Can’t beat tradition. #oldcomrades #daingeanu íchúisabú
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Aoife Granville
4 years
To keep the spirits up & after skipping the traditional 6am parade this morn, we challenge wran/band members to upload their versions of our Dingle tunes for #oldcomradeschallenge Daingean Uí Chúis Abú!!
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ó Dhaingean Uí Chúis 💚
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Aoife Granville
4 years
The lovely Hannie, one of our regulars at @ionadculturtha sent me this memory over the w/end. Mo chéad oíche ag obair I mBaile Mhúirne is ag seimnt Le @lliamm7 We’ll be back soon 🤞 with the gigs. (I don’t gatecrash them all!)
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Aoife Granville
2 years
The fishing boats at Dingle & the bay looking well this evening ❤️ #dingle
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Ciarraí Abú! 💚💛💚💛 @Kerry_Official @deirdregranharp
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Aoife Granville
1 year
The excitement of having the trolley back on @IrishRail Is iad na rudaí beaga!
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Love seeing these news reports every time. Just so happy. Comhgháirdeachas leis na Saoráinigh nua ar fad 💚
@rtenews
RTÉ News
1 year
A total of 3,914 people will be conferred with Irish citizenship at four ceremonies being held today and tomorrow in Co Kerry, with applicants saying 'it's a big deal' to join the 'global family' |
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Pic by our pal Eddie Hennessy after one of our sessions at @FiddleFair over the weekend. Happy campers @deirdregranharp
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
2 years
Cuid de Bhord @PhoenixDingle With some of the board of #savethephoenixdingle campaign @Jamie26flann @liamh_79 & Tor Cotton. All systems go!
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Aoife Granville
1 year
We actually didn’t conflab on what to wear when we headed to Derry to film Beart Bunting in March 🤣🤣 TG4 anocht ag a 9.30 @deirdregranharp @Dearcan37
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Suaimhneas ag Bá Dhaingean Uí Chúis #dingle
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1 year
Dúinín & Na Triúr Deirféir - Beautiful in all weathers
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Aoife Granville
4 years
Sorry to see @SarahAMcInerney finish on @TodayRadioRTE today. Have really enjoyed listening over the past couple of months. Go néirí go geal leat a Sarah. #sarahmcinerney
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Aoife Granville
1 year
We’ve the Biddy hat & brídeoga made thanks to a lovely workshop with Pat Broderick & everyone at Biddy’s Day Killorglin today!
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Aoife Granville
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Tá gearrán déanta agam - tá na sonraí anseo maidir leis an Seoladh a bhuíochas do @CnaG
@CnaG
Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️
4 months
Tá an-díomá go deo @CnaG maidir leis an mhéid a thit amach @SixOClockShow inné. Ba mhór an náire é. Maith í @SileSeoige a sheas an fód. Creideann muid gur cheart do @VirginMediaIE leithscéal a ghabháil láithreach Idir an dá linn is féidir gearán a dhéanamh ag complaints @cnam .ie
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Is breá liom an radharc seo! Always beautiful.
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Beannachtaí na Féile na Pádraig oraibh ó Dhaingean Uí Chúis ☘️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Why do I get these ideas?! 😴 #brigidscross #Folklore
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Inch looking gorgeous this afternoon ☀️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
A gorgeous day. Meant so much to all of us. #daingeanu íchúisabú
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Finding it hard to put into words how special tonight was at @ionadculturtha We were all so moved by the songs & music @ELangfordMusic Hannah & Alec have created. I’m an emotional wreck (in a good way!). Míle buíochas @MusNetIrl & gach éinne a Bhí i láthair ❤️
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Aoife Granville
1 year
Lovely night making straws in Sráid Eoin & another brilliant suit made by Billy. What a craftsman! #tradition #weneverdiedawinteryet
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Aoife Granville
5 months
It was great to play tunes tonight to ring in the New Year in Dingle- A tradition we always had but that has been outlawed by the powers that be since last year!!! We never died a winter yet though! Thanks to everyone for turning out. Daingean Uí Chúis Abú ❤️🤍
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Dingle ❤️
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Aoife Granville
3 years
Grma a Mhichael D! Here we are fangirling! And chatting about Tony Small ❤️
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Aoife Granville
2 years
One of my greatest privileges over the past few years has been getting to know & work with the wonderful Gearóid Ó Crualaoích. Champion of Folklore, scholarship, otherworldly women & so much more. Lovely to celebrate the launch of his new book last night at @UCC
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Aoife Granville
4 years
completely taken aback at not even a mention of the historic performance of Irish conductor @eimearnoone on the #Oscars2020 piece on @rtenews today. It was so significant & is important that such a great role model for young musicians, women in Ireland should be highlighted.
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
2 years
Annual reminder that I’m happy to send whistle notes & recordings of Wran tunes out to anyone who needs them. Just message 🎶🥁
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Delighted for @deirdregranharp & her new project/residency which will honour our uncle Johnny! GRMMA @muirioch for this lovely article in the Kerry’s Eye.
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@aoifegranville
Aoife Granville
3 years
First jab down! Staff were just so lovely and efficient in Tralee Vaccination Centre. Go raibh míle maith agaibh @HSELive #vaccine
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Aoife Granville
3 years
The good types of traffic jams in Dingle today for @feilebealtaine Fair play to the Goat Street Wran. #dinglewren #cantbeattradition #daingeanu íchúisabú
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Aoife Granville
2 years
Did you see us on the news tonight? #savethephoenixdingle 💜💜
@rtenews
RTÉ News
2 years
A campaign to save an iconic cinema is gathering momentum in Dingle, Co Kerry. The Phoenix Cinema, which has been operating in the town for over 100 years, has been put up for sale but a local group is hoping to raise funds to purchase it | Read more:
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Brilliant Tommy Tiernan show again this week. Three wonderful guests @mary_coughlan4 @ZakmoradiGAA & Senator Eileen Flynn. Fair play to @kate_odwyer & everyone involved in booking! A tonic! #TommyTiernanShow
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