“We had nothing to do but to practise at home,” Mulligan says. “I was very drunk at the time,” Mac Amhlaigh qualifies. While rehearsing, they noted the prowess of Mac Amhlaigh, a cellist and fiddle player. That gig wasn’t exactly a success, “because we were terrible, and locked,” Holohan explains, but they kept playing and, about a year and a half later, were selected for a Cobblestone Folk Orchestra trip to Lithuania. Ispíní na hÉireann made them laugh and it stuck. When they bagged a slot to perform in the back room of the Cobblestone for a group of American festival directors, they needed a name. Made up of Tomás Mulligan, of the Mulligan family who run the Cobblestone, Adam Holohan, Aongus Mac Amhlaigh, Pádraig Óg Mac Aodhagháin and Kinko Ceallaigh, the band formed in January of 2018, after Mulligan and Holohan had been playing together for a couple of months. On a hot midweek night in the Cobblestone pub in Smithfield in Dublin, Ispíní na hÉireann, a rising, raucous traditional music band, explain their origins.
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