School band Ireland 2026

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

Documentary about the 1991 film

Ireland In Music is a TV programme first broadcast on RTÉ One Television on December 29, 2020, featuring a number of Irish-based musicians performing in locations around Ireland. The show was produced by Temple Bar TradFest in association with Born Optimistic, The Temple Bar Company, RTÉ, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Fáilte Ireland, Tourism Ireland and the local authorities of Co Clare, Co Donegal, Co Dublin, Fingal, Co Meath and Co Westmeath. It was directed by Donal Scannell and filmed under degrees of COVID-19 lockdown. The artists taking part performed a mixture of traditional Irish folk songs and original material. First broadcast on RTÉ One Television on December 29, 2020. Internationally it was broadcast on 19 TV stations across 41 countries.

Ardal O'Hanlon looks at what started the showband era in Ireland, the people involved, and how it came to an end in the 1980s.

It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.