{"id":60279,"date":"2026-03-30T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60279"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:56:42","slug":"odonoghues-birthplace-of-dublin-pub-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60279","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s: Birthplace of Dublin Pub Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7817\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7817','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=60279-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ODonoghuespromo.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 0:58 &#8212; 2.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s Pub, Merrion Row, Dublin, is celebrated as the birthplace of The Dubliners and a home for spontaneous traditional and folk sessions\u2014but behind the music lies a deeper story. In the 1950s and \u201960s, as waves of young people arrived from rural Ireland, the pub became a crucible where city and country styles collided. Amid post-war social change, European and American folk, skiffle, and rhythm and blues met with Irish melodies to forge a new, modern sound, yet true to the tradition. This was more than a meeting place\u2014it was the heartbeat of a cultural awakening that reshaped Irish music at home and across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Across two episodes,\u00a0<em>O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s: Birthpalce of Dublin Pub Sessions<\/em> brings together legendary voices\u2014, Finbar Furey, Andy Irvine, Johnny Moynihan, Paddy Keenan and others\u2014to tell the story of how a modest Dublin pub became the engine of a global folk revival. The series, produced and presented by Tommy Fegan, traces the intertwining of traditional instrumental music, ballads and protest songs, and the evolution of a living musical tradition that echoed Ireland\u2019s changing social and political landscape. This is the story of a sound\u2014and a spirit\u2014that still defines a nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Made with the support of Coimisi\u00fan Na Mean with the Television License fee.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s Pub, Merrion Row, Dublin, is celebrated as the birthplace of The Dubliners and a home for spontaneous traditional and folk sessions\u2014but behind the music lies a deeper story. In the 1950s and \u201960s, as waves of young people arrived from rural Ireland, the pub became a crucible where city and country styles collided. Amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7818\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7818','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=60279-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ODonoghuespromo.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ODonoghuespromo.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 0:58 &#8212; 2.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odonoghues-birthplace-of-dublin-pub-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60281,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60279\/revisions\/60281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}