Author: Paul Mc Namara

Dooagh Pipe Band and Manchester’s’ Fianna Phadraig Pipe Band bands join forces to celebrate 150 years of Piping

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29th May 2022 on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland

2022 is the 75th anniversary of Dooagh Pipe Band. As part of that event, Dooagh Pipe Band and Manchester’s’ award winning Fianna Phadraig Pipe Band are joining forces to celebrate this years Home to Mayo Festival in May.
The two bands who are both celebrating their 75th anniversaries are to stage a special joint celebration during the afternoon event on Sunday 29 May as part of the week long Mayo.ie Home to Mayo Tradfest which runs from Thursday 26 to Tuesday 31 May. The Tradfest will be touring Mayo and staging events in Attymass, Ballina, Castlebar, Cong, Ashford Castle, Achill Island and Westport.

More information can be found at the links below.

Mayo and Manchester bands celebrate 150 years of Irish piping | Connaught Telegraph (con-telegraph.ie)

Mayo and Manchester bands join forces to celebrate 150 years of Piping | mayo manchester tourism and business group

MayoManchester (@MayoManchester) / Twitter

St. Patrick’s Day 2021 – A Virtual Celebration

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This year with the crisis continuing in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day on Achill Island will be held as a virtual event.

Click on the following link to join the event on Wednesday.

https://www.facebook.com/events/3647421548640296

Here is the agenda for the day.

Don’t forget to join us this coming Wednesday for our #virtualstpatricksday from Achill Island.

🕘 9:00 Happy St Patrick’s Day – A look at the customs and traditions of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Achill since 1882.

🕚 11:00 Live bi-lingual mass from The Church of the Assumption, Dookinella, followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the Dookinella Pipe Band memorial for deceased members.

🕑 14:00 Reeling in the Years – A look back and photos and videos from previous years.

🕕 18:00 Ceol Agus Caint. We will be chatting with Achill natives around the World by video link and talking about their memories of St. Patrick’s Day and what they are doing this year to mark the occasion. This will include members of Dooagh Pipe Band, Achill, Pollagh Pipe Band and Tonragee Pipe Band. Tommy Barron will be dropping into our studio to tell as about the history of the keel pipeband as they mark their 75th anniversary this year.

🕢 19:30 St. Patrick’s Day Sing Song with Gary Vesey Music

🕘 21:00 Live St. Patrick’s Night session with The Achill Lads

🕥 22:30 Benediction with Fr. Gerard Quirke Please join in at anytime during the day. All times GMT. You still have time to send your video greetings to us which we will feature during the day. Please share.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2020 on Achill Island is cancelled

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Joint Statement from the Pipe Bands of Achill

Following on from the outbreak of COVID-19 and the advice from Government, the pipe bands of Achill met last Tuesday and again today, Thursday (12th March) and have taken the difficult decision to cancel our traditional St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

The Pipe Bands have not taken this decision lightly, but in the interest of public health and safety, we feel it is a responsible and necessary one to make.

St. Patrick’s Pipe Band, Dooagh
Pollagh Pipe Band
Keel Pipe Band
Dookinella Pipe Band
Tonregee Pipe Band