* Liam O ' Flynn from the band Planxty is from Kill

Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting initially of Christy Moore ( vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán ), Dónal Lunny ( bouzouki, guitars ), Andy Irvine ( vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica ), and Liam O ' Flynn ( uilleann pipes, tin whistle ).

" Planxty " is a word used by the classic harper Turlough O ' Carolan in many of his works, and is believed to denote a tribute to a particular person: " Planxty Irwin ", for example, would be in honor of Colonel John Irwin of Sligo.

During the penal law era of Ireland's history, songs sung in Irish were outlawed, and it is believed that the use of the phrase " Planxty ", followed by the name of the composer, was to disguise the composer's true identity (" Planxty " being logically assumed to be the first name of the composer ), while still giving them credit for the song.

Through such traditional musicians as Turlough O ' Carolan ( who died in 1738 and is often lauded as " the last of the bards ") and countless of his less-known or anonymous colleagues, the musical tradition of the fili has made its way to contemporary ears via artists such as Planxty, The Chieftains, and The Dubliners.

He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts.

The poem also serves as a basis for the chorus of the song " The Jolly Beggar " as recorded by the traditional Irish band Planxty, as well as the basis for the love leitmotif in Patrick Doyle's score for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 film ), where it is fully realized in the track, " The Wedding Night ".

The band itself showed a progression away from the then-popular " ballad bands " like The Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners, towards a more instrumental-focused sound, later to be popularized in groups like Planxty.

More information about Moynihan and his career with Planxty can be found in the 2006 book by Leagues O ' Toole entitled ' The Humours of Planxty.

* 1947 – Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Planxty )

* 1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Planxty and Moving Hearts )

The interval act was traditional Irish band Planxty, who performed the lengthy piece " Timedance ", which depicted Irish music through the ages.

Planxty ’ s first single, “ Three Drunken Maidens ” was released by their manager Des Kelly ’ s label, Ruby Records, reaching # 7 in the Irish charts.

A formative influence on Planxty and in particular on Christy Moore was the singing of Irish Traveller John " Jacko " Reilly who hailed from Boyle, Co. Roscommon.

Some of his compositions are performed by many popular Irish musicians, such as Planxty, The Chieftains and The Dubliners.

However, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as U2, Enya, Westlife, Boyzone, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Horslips, Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, Clannad, Stiff Little Fingers, Altan, Frank Patterson, The Corrs, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, De Dannan, The Divine Comedy, Josef Locke, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, Therapy ?, The Saw Doctors, Planxty, The Wolfe Tones, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, In Tua Nua, The Undertones, Ash, B * Witched, Nadine Coyle, The Hothouse Flowers, The Script, Two Door Cinema Club, Something Happens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Dana, Mundy, Sinéad O ' Connor, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Val Doonican, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ruby Murray, Peter Cunnah ( of D: Ream ), Daniel O ' Donnell, Bridie Gallagher, Brendan Bowyer, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Mary Black, Sir James Galway, Johnny Logan, Bill Whelan ( of Riverdance fame ), Damien Rice, Phil Coulter, Glen Hansard, and Celtic Woman achieving success nationally and internationally.

A Welsh session band, following in the footsteps of their Irish counterparts Planxty, Cilmeri recorded two albums with a uniquely Welsh feel.

They have produced some musical gems, now standards, like " Les filles des Forges ", " Les prisons de Nantes ", " La Jument de Michao ", " Pelot d ' Hennebont ", and new interpretation of Irish music, like " Cad é sin don té sin ", " Si mort a mors " ( originally An Cailín Rua ), " La ville que j ' ai tant aimée " ( from " The town I loved so well "), " Mrs McDermott " ( from the 17th-century Irish harpist Ó Carolan ) and " Kalonkadour " ( from " Planxty Irwin ").

At the time members of Irish folk band Planxty, Bill Whelan and Donal Lunny composed the music, augmenting the band with a rock rhythm section of electric bass and drums and a four-piece horn section.

In addition to an impressive solo career and his work with the Irish traditional group Planxty, O ' Flynn has recorded with many prominent international musical artists, including Mark Knopfler, the Everly Brothers, Enya, Mary Black, and Donal Lunny.

In 1973, Liam co-founded the Irish traditional music group Planxty and remained a member throughout the band's various incarnations.

While Seán Ó Riada and The Chieftains had reinvigorated Irish traditional instrumental music in an ensemble format during the 1960s, Planxty built on that foundation and took it one step further.

Despite some success, Brady returned to Ireland in 1974 to join the Irish group Planxty.

The group was formed in 1981 when Dónal Lunny ( bouzouki ) and Christy Moore ( vocals and bodhrán ), of Planxty, wanted to explore the possibilities of linking contemporary music to Irish traditional music.

Moving Hearts, formed in 1981 by former Planxty members Christy Moore and Donal Lunny, followed the pattern set by Horslips in combining Irish traditional music with rock, and also added elements of jazz to their sound.

Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: A Secret History ( 2005 ) covers Horslips, The Pogues, Planxty and others.

As well as writing hit singles, Coulter produced three ground-breaking albums with Planxty, which would have an influence on modern Irish music.

The Greek bouzouki, in the newer tetrachordo ( four course / eight string, or τετράχορδο ) version developed in the twentieth century, was introduced into Irish Traditional Music in the late 1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the popular folk group Sweeney ’ s Men, and popularized by Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny in the group Planxty.

* Planxty Live 2004 The reunion of the hugely popular and influential group after a 20 year hiatus.

After Planxty, Moynihan went his own way and for a period of time fronted the Fleadh Cowboys, a popular band in 1980s Dublin.

It was from Reilly that Moore learned " Raggle Taggle Gypsy ", which was recorded for the first Planxty album, in addition to " The Well Below the Valley ," which appeared on The Well Below the Valley.

In a book about Planxty (" The Humours of Planxty ", by Leagues O ' Toole ), Whelan says " It was no mistake of mine to call it Riverdance because it connected absolutely to Timedance.

For a time they called themselves " CLAD ", an acronym of their names, but soon decided on Planxty.

California is too far, he thought.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.

One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??