It’s a welcoming place, open to locals and tourists alike. They run sessions seven nights a week and a few of the days too, and regularly host some of the best living trad musicians. The Cobblestone pub in Dublin’s Smithfield neighborhood is one well-known spot for traditional music. The Cobblestone pub is famous for trad music sessions © Damien Storan / Getty Images The fight around authenticity and Irish music has been raging for a long time. He also nursed a lifelong hatred of the accordion, calling the piano accordion “the greatest abomination of all”.
He and others were trying to keep a folk tradition alive in the age of modern mass media, the radio, the television and the overwhelming cultural forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Seán Ó Riada, a pioneer in both Irish traditional and art music, was instrumental in establishing in the 1960s what a modern “ceili” group would look like. At its heart is a complex distinction between traditional Irish music – that is to say the personal, local and mostly oral tradition of performance and song still faintly found around the country – and the various modern musical genres of “trad”, “Irish folk”, “Celtic” or simply “Irish” music. If you witnessed Ireland’s horrified reaction to the release of Ed Sheeran’s song 'Galway Girl' a few years ago, rest assured, complaining about ersatz Irish music is a proud tradition.
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So what is ‘real’ traditional Irish music – and, more importantly – how can you experience it in Dublin? Here's your insider's guide to the best places to go and how to get the most out of a traditional Irish session.
Scoff, they will, and tell you, that’s not real music. But, you might protest, I want to hear some live music. Say ‘ Temple Bar’ to any Dubliner and watch their eyes roll back into their head – the quaintly-cobbled and bar-filled district is a tourist trap, a non-space of plastic paddywhackery in the heart of the capital.
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