IrishCentral seanchai - b5cc3275d518416eacb61d676e8d84d1 http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/seanchai IrishCentral seanchai en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/off_the_record/more-great-stories-from-chris-byrne-and-seanchai---videos-138636879.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/off_the_record/more-great-stories-from-chris-byrne-and-seanchai---videos-138636879.html More great stories from Chris Byrne and Seanchai - VIDEOS (IrishCentral) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:31 PST Chris Byrne (center) and SeanchaiFor over two decades, Chris Byrne has been shaking things up while shaking it up on the dance floor, and his new album with Seanchai, Shantytown, is no exceptionThe history lesson starts on the liner notes “Few people today associate the globalized Shantytown, wherein one-sixth of the world’s population currently lives in subhuman misery, with the Irish people,” the writer Michael Patrick MacDonald says in the album’s liner notes “Fewer people recognize that the world shanty itself come from the seitious Irish tongue ‘sean tigh’ or “old house READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/travel/irelands-hidden-gems/the-truth-about-fairies-and-leprechauns-just-in-time-for-st-patricks-day-117148883.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/travel/irelands-hidden-gems/the-truth-about-fairies-and-leprechauns-just-in-time-for-st-patricks-day-117148883.html Some truths about fairies and leprechauns for St. Patrick's Day - VIDEO (IrishCentral) Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:50:06 PST
Click here to visit our special St Patrick's Day section The truth? There is no such thing as leprechauns in Ireland so apologies to any would be believers in magical crocks of gold The whole leprechaun thing was more of a Disney invention that came along with the likes of bad ‘oirish’ accents in films such as ‘Darby O’Gill and the Little People’ READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Seanchai-On-Song-in-Jersey-1541.html http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Seanchai-On-Song-in-Jersey-1541.html Seanchai On Song in Jersey (IrishCentral) Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:57:49 PDT By: Mike Farragher

CHRIS Byrne doesn't bring his band Seanchai and the Unity Squad on as many field trips nowadays, so it was a rare treat to see him play his annual gig at the Jersey Shore Irish Festival this past weekend. They have single-handedly pioneered an urban Paddy genre of Irish music. Their sound is jammed with raps, turntable scratches and funky backbeats that would put you in a cold sweat, and the relentlessly intricate bass lines of former Prodigals bassist Andrew Harkin. READ MORE ]]>