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The Fox Hunt - The Bards, 1980

Irish folk music group The Bards perform a song about fox hunting. Ciarán Mac Mathúna talks to Diarmuid O'Leary about the formation of the traditional Irish music group 'The Bards’. For the past three years, The Bards have been bringing their music throughout Ireland from Malin Head to Hook Head. The band has also played live in Canada and America. Diarmuid O'Leary joins band members Ann Keaveney and Christy Sheridan or a performance of the song ‘The Fox Hunt’. Introducing the performance, Ciarán Mac Mathúna references Oscar Wilde’s description of the fox hunt as the unspeakable pursuit of the uneatable. Whether you approve of fox hunting or not, certainly we have great music associated with the fox hunt. This episode of ‘The Humours of Donnybrook’ was broadcast on 15 July 1980. The presenter is Ciarán Mac Mathúna. 'Humours of Donnybrook' was a series of traditional Irish music programmes presented by Ciarán MacMathúna and produced by Peter Canning.