Tommy Keane, Jacqueline McCarthy and their son Pádraic Keane entertaining visitors to their home in Maree, Co. Galway. They are playing various selections of Irish Traditional Music and the instruments used are uilleann pipes (Tommy & Pádraic), concertina (Jacqueline) & tin whistles (Tommy & Pádraic).
The music of Jacqueline McCarthy and Tommy Keane has been recorded and broadcast extensively over the years. This is the opening excerpt from their appearance on RTE's "The Full Set" television series which featured many of the leading duet combinations in Irish traditional music.
Out at the very edge of Europe, the Wild Atlantic Way stretches for 2,500 km (1,500 miles) along Ireland’s western seaboard. from Malin Head in Co. Donegal to Kinsale in Co. Cork, through regions like Connemara, Galway Bay and Kerry, it’s the longest defined coastal drive in the world.
Our house is located on the route with Galway Bay at the end of our garden and Rinville Park - which is 1 mile from our home - is one of the Discovery Points . The Wild Atlantic Way on Ireland’s west coast leads you through one of the world’s most dramatic coastal landscapes, a landscape on the edge of Europe that has shaped the development of its people, communities and settlements, a landscape that has inspired its own particular language, literature, art, song and dance. It’s a place of many natural features - seascapes, sea-life, cliffs, mountains, glens, loughs, trails and pathways. It’s a place to experience nature at its wildest, a place to explore the history of the Gaels and their religion; a place to experience great events, great food and drink, great music and the craic.