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Everywhere you go in Dublin you’re going to find it. In hotels, bars and restaurants all around the city, the merry sounds of fiddle, tambourine and piano accordion will echo out into the streets and bring an automatic smile to your face.
The Irish are very proud of their musical heritage and it forms a considerable part of their national identity. For this reason, even if it was possible to avoid an evening of good old fashioned traditional Irish entertainment, it would be folly to do so. Pubs are the modern home of traditional Irish music and you will surely be struck at how the atmosphere will suddenly kick up a notch as soon as the evening’s band gets going on any given night.
Clients are usually regaled with a string of popular ditties such as ‘Molly Malone’, ‘Whisky in the Jar’, ‘The Wild Rover’, ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’ and ‘I’ll tell me Ma’ as well as some original numbers from the bands’ repertoire. The locals have no inhibitions in singing along and you’ll soon find that your feet will have a life of their own.
Also highly popular is the traditional Irish dancing that has been immortalised thanks to such productions as the ‘Riverdance’ and ‘Lord of the Dance’. Watching these athletic and attractive young dancers storm the stage can be quite a breathtaking sight as they stomp on the wooden boards in perfect unison. Such dances however are characterised by the intense and furious frenzy of the feet and the relatively static state of the upper body.
Therefore to get the most out of such a show, try and ensure that you get a table close to the stage so that the dancers’ lower bodies won’t be lost behind your fellow spectators.
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