The enchanting Wexford Carol is one of our oldest Catholic Christmas carols, dating to at least the 15th or 16th centuries. Its melody is mesmerizing and evocative of a Catholic Christmas season. Also ...
First Person: Christmas carols like the Wexford Carol can be a conduit for joy and celebration in the darkest of times Christmas carols are themed of the birth of Christ. It is said that they owe ...
With carol singers lining up in shopping malls and many Christian schools getting Christmas nativity plays ready for their grand performance in front of proud parents, people all over the world are ...
Like clockwork, my father would humorously reply ‘Oh, you mean The Enniscorthy Carol?’ placing a strong emphasis on the name of his native Wexford town. As he gently took the precious recording from ...
Christmas carols written hundreds of years ago in Enniscorthy and Kilmore are on the musical programme at concerts and recitals around the world this festive season. The Wexford Carol, sometimes known ...
Alison Krauss performs at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala on Thursday, June 13, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) After going in an admittedly ...
The Enniscorthy Christmas Carol, which has been recorded by artists such as Julie Andrews and Alison Krauss, originated in Co Wexford over 100 years ago Aileen Lambert outside St Aidan's Cathedral, ...
For the vast majority of holiday albums that surface at this time of year, it often seems the biggest artistic choices involved are whether the featured artist sings “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” ...
The choir sings an arrangement of the Irish carol ahead of its Christmas concert on 19 December Video of the Day is a glorious new arrangement of the Wexford Carol, a traditional Irish Christmas carol ...