Irish Dancing

The O’Malley Children Get a Lesson on Irish Dance
After the O’Malley children had finished their Thanksgiving dinner, they all gathered around the fireplace. For them, it was the best part of Thanksgiving Day. Each year the family would sit together and each member would share stories and reminisce of the past. This year as they were looking through the photo album, they came upon a picture of their Great-Great Grandmother. She was on a stage dancing, dressed in a heavy woolen garment with rigid posture and a serious expression (Gale Research, 1997). Immediately, they all wanted to know more about her. On this Thanksgiving evening, what they discovered from Grandma O’Malley was the history of Irish dancing.
When many people envision Irish dancing they think of Michael Flatley. What they don’t realize is that Irish dancing can be referenced back to the 1300’s. When Ireland was suffering during and after the Tudor Wars, and the laws forbidding everything Iris...