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Feis Ceoil is an annual Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 cultural festival of music and dance. It was first organized in 1897 by Dr. Annie Patterson and consisted of competitions for performance and composition and was supported by all musicians of the day, both national and classical. Since then the Feis has undergone many changes to accommodate the development of music in Ireland.

Feis Ceoil has since expanded to more than 170 competitions in all instruments, including voice, and covering all ages from 8 years upwards.






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Feis Ceoil is an annual Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 cultural festival of music and dance. It was first organized in 1897 by Dr. Annie Patterson and consisted of competitions for performance and composition and was supported by all musicians of the day, both national and classical. Since then the Feis has undergone many changes to accommodate the development of music in Ireland.

Feis Ceoil has since expanded to more than 170 competitions in all instruments, including voice, and covering all ages from 8 years upwards. Famous competitors over the festival's history include tenor John McCormack
John McCormack

John McCormack , was a world-famous Ireland tenor and recording artist, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control....
, author James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
 (as a singer), Irish Tenor
Irish Tenors

The Irish Tenors is the musical singing trio from Ireland started in 1998 by television producer, Bill Hughes, for a of PBS special The Irish Tenors....
 Finbar Wright
Finbar Wright

Edward Finbar Wright , known popularly as Finbar Wright, is a popular music singer, songwriter, poet from County Cork, Ireland.Finbar Wright is a classically trained tenor who emerged during the 1990s in Ireland and has become one of that country's "most popular singers", concentrating on romantic, jazz and pop standards for the adul...
, broadcaster Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin
Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin

Se?n ?g ? Ceallach?in, is a journalist, author and broadcaster and former Gaelic footballer and Hurling with Dublin GAA and Eoghan Ruadh. He was born in Newcastlewest, Co....
 and violinist Cora Venus Lunny
Cora Venus Lunny

Cora Venus Lunny is an Irish musician. Her father is the musician D?nal Lunny and she is the niece of Manus Lunny.Established as one of Ireland's leading classical musicians since her teens, Cora Venus Lunny is active as a soloist, chamber musician, interpreter of contemporary classical music, improvising violinist and composer....
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In 2006 the Royal Irish Academy of Music Percussion Ensemble were awarded first prize in the Chamber Music Competition, becoming the first percussion ensemble in the Feis's history to enter and win.

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