{"id":607890,"date":"2026-07-28T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/607890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:30:13","slug":"rte-archives-arts-and-culture-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/607890\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Archives | Arts and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music, song and dance at the Ulster Fleadh Cheoil in County Tyrone.<\/p>\n

For the first time in many years, Omagh<\/a> in County Tyrone hosted the Ulster Fleadh Cheoil. Over the weekend of 24-26 July 1981 the town hosted a jam packed programme of music, singing and dancing.<\/p>\n

Main Street, Omagh, was closed to traffic for the big parade. Accordion, flute and pipe bands, majorettes and floats marched to Omagh St Enda’s GAA pitch.<\/p>\n

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People from all nine counties of Ulster came to watch the proceedings or to take part in the many competitions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Competition success qualifies the leading performers for the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann to be held in Listowel<\/a>, County Kerry.<\/p>\n

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But if the parades and competitions are an essential part of the Fleadh Cheoil, the most enjoyable part for many is the street session.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the many street sessions was led by banjo player Liam Farrell from Ballygawley, County Tyrone.<\/p>\n

An RT\u00c9 News report broadcast on 28 July 1981. The reporter is Diarmuid \u00d3 Suilleabh\u00e1in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music, song and dance at the Ulster Fleadh Cheoil in County Tyrone. For the first time in many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,29,82],"class_list":["post-607890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-omagh","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116996671164273889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}