Dervish

New York City Redux

By Ian Worpole, Contributor
April / May 2007

April 1, 2007 by </a> By Ian Worpole, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2007-archive/april-may-2007/">April / May 2007</a> Leave a Comment

Music Columnist Ian Worpole chronicles his return to the Big Apple Having spent a rowdy ten years in a cheap loft in Tribeca, New York City (Cheap! It wasn’t quite yet an oxymoron twenty years ago), with two small children and an irate landlord, it was time to move north to Woodstock, a quaint hamlet known for its arts colony and a certain concert that took place in 1964. We … [Read more...] about New York City Redux

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By Don Meade, Contributor
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by </a> By Don Meade, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2002-archive/february-march-2002/">February / March 2002</a> Leave a Comment

Decade This "best of" collection is perfect introduction to Dervish, one of Ireland's very best traditional music groups. Decade samples tracks from ten years' worth of recordings by a band that has gone from playing pub sessions in County Sligo to head-lining concerts before stadium-sized crowds in Europe and South America. Dervish is still relatively little known in the … [Read more...] about Music Roundup

November 26, 1885

Thomas Andrews, Northern Irish chemist and physicist, died on this day in 1885 in Belfast. Andrews spent extensive time in school. He first attended the Belfast Academy and then the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, where he studied mathematics. In 1828, he went on to University of Glasgow to study chemistry, then Trinity College Dublin for classics with a distinction in science, and finally University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a doctorate of medicine. He did his most important work as a professor of Chemistry at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he demonstrated the phase transitions between gases and liquids, and carried out a complete inquiry into the gas laws.

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