“This is for Ireland,” dance troupe leader Sean O’Brien proudly declared as the talented ladies from Reel Irish Dance Entertainment claimed a world record. And they certainly had the audience – and ...

The Maher School of Irish Dance has produced five state champions and a total of 17 world championship qualifiers. Owner of the school and dancing teacher Maria Maher-Astley said this was the most ...

The Irish take their dancing seriously, with dance schools training members for regional, national and world competitions. Irish dance naturally has a heavy emphasis on competition, since it was in ...

The sign is clear: “The following are not permitted in the hotel lobby, public areas or corridors: Dancing. Running. Make-up application. Hair-styling.” Every February the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney ...

Irish dancing is global. Unlike the niche folk concerns of pole-battering Morris men or their Irish analog, Mummer men, Irish dancing broke containment long ago. Thanks in part to 90s stage sensations ...

TODAY, MANY STILL WORK TO HONOR THOSE TRADITIONS. IT’S FAST, IT’S ELECTRIC, AND IT’S FILLED WITH HISTORY AND HEART. I’VE TAUGHT DANCING NONSTOP FOR 70 YEARS, BOTH HERE IN IRELAND. THE SHARP RHYTHM OF ...

Madge Sheahan barely remembered Kerry when she moved to London at the age of three. Hundreds of miles from the playful bounce of the Kerry polka, the girl from Glenbeigh danced in a land far away from ...