This is the Irish dancing costume that I wore when I was six years old in Ballyfermot, Dublin, over 60 years ago. I wanted so badly to be an Irish dancer and tormented my poor mother for a dress, as all the other girls in the local Irish Dancing class had one. My mother could… Continue reading Ger Murphy’s Irish Dancing Costume 1970s
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Mary Kenny’s Irish Dancing Costume 1980s
A photo of Mary Kenny Feis ready, outside the Mansion House, Dublin. 1980s Mary wore this embroidered orange velvet Irish dancing costume in the 1980s, when she was nine years old and dancing with the Hogan School of Dance, Glasnevin, Dublin. And a record from our collection: Buntus Rince, Gael-Linn. Na Ceoltóiri, May Keogh and… Continue reading Mary Kenny’s Irish Dancing Costume 1980s