2023-08-06 16:55:34
The Kilkennys are today the main banner of traditional Irish music. niall fennessy
The Kilkennys opened the Interceltic Festival in style, which this year gives pride of place to Ireland.
Special envoy to Lorient (Morbihan)
More than 650 years ago, the medieval city of Kilkenny, south of Dublin – famous today for its ghosts and 12th-century castle, its beer culture (home to the island’s oldest brewery , installed as it should be in the place of a former monastery), and its curling team -, was the scene of one of the strongest attacks of the British Crown against Gaelic culture.
The Acts or Statutes of Kilkenny, enacted by Parliament in 1366 to check the assimilation of native customs by English settlers, prohibited on pain of death the speaking of Gaelic, the wearing of Irish fashion, the trade in arms or horses with the natives, abrogated all pre-Christian law and, therefore, prohibited any Gaelic bard, musician, storyteller or poet. So many people therefore considered enemies of the King of England.
Heirs of the Dubliners
Some 600 years later were born in this same city of Kilkenny four…
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