O'Shea Irish Dancers

[@lockedinsideurhsbox]

lovely dancers. and i love that their teacher is actually wearing the proper dance shoes...must be nice

[@ramywiles]

I keep coming back to this... there's something about the fact that their steps are so much more musical than a lot of the stuff I hear/see today, as well as the fact that their teacher is a musician who clearly cares a lot about interpreting the music through the dance, that really gets to me. I could talk everyone's ears off about how much I wish musicality took precedence over athleticism in today's dance scene.

[@kathleenleahy3834]

i love that he says "they really do it justice". that's such a perfect way of describing it.

[@joggadog]

I love these steps. so cool

[@megangalbreath283]

Wow!! You all are very good :) I have been only irish dancing for 6 years...and I just started hornpipes! Very good dancing tho, really liked it.

[@mairead027]

I agree. Great Job Ladies!

[@jwerdel]

love taylor's dress!!!

[@xKD11]

you guys are amazing :D please keep up the good work and your dresses are lovely :D x

[@marilynlindstrom5626]

That is sooo cool!

[@delahaven]

I only have one thing to say..... GO O'SHEA!!!

[@denig2000able]

Two lovely girls. Anyone know if they won more major medals? Lovely steps too.

[@ticklemepurple86]

Cormac looks like a very nice teacher

[@Nfoster516]

i am a irish dancer and i have only started my kicks an hop overs so u are amazing and i love my dan ce do you do turs overs

[@JiillKayy]

Well there's an irish dance club at the school i'm going to next year which i'll probably do, but i don't really have the time or money to take the classes i'd need to actually get somewhat competitive again, not to mention buy another dress and wig if i did start competing.I know you can start dancing at any age and go far, but i always regret quitting when i did because if i didn't i probably could've gotten pretty good and not have to start from scratch, like i would if i started again now.

[@RebiTitanic]

im a 17 yr old novice/prizewinner and my ultimate goal is just to get to the NANs. the worlds take so much work and training, i regret starting so late. they are amazin g dancers

[@irishdanceluva7448]

hey!! i do irish dancing!! my irish dancing nationals is tomorrow!! omgosh, im sooo nurvous.... im aiming for the top 3 again!! x

[@Nfoster516]

good luck

[@aoifemaeflanagan1982]

Nfoster516 wow only 7 years late lol!

[@veronicaperry8737]

It must have taken long practices and a ton of determination to get there!

[@RaePlaybite]

My friend Maggie dances at O'Shea :) She's been trying to get me to switch their for ages... Cormac is really tall... especially in person!

[@JiillKayy]

I regret quitting Irish dance so much! I miss it and love watching it, but almost being 18 its pretty impossible to go back to it now and actually get good again:/

[@irishcockneyrebel]

HM - not at all. I started Irish Dancing in my 30s and I went from novice to open in just under 5 years. I just did it to keep fit at first then started competing. I won loads of trophies too. Not bad for an old bird!!! 😁

[@cblonk8339]

HM I started “late,” because I started when I was nearly ten. Now, at 13, I’m in open and I’m very glad I didn’t listen to the teacher from my first dance school, who basically said I’d never get here

[@MotionPictureMuse]

I've seen so many school jackets similar to ours! It's a popular color combo, I guess. It's annoying at majors, though, 'cause I keep thinking I see people from my school.

[@irishdancer112288]

Haha, I love watching this video, then talking to Meg about it. XD

[@beatricefavor7394]

I do Irish dancing and going to the world championships this year and the wigs hurt SO bad!! This will be my 6th time going there I’m only 11:)

[@sarahlee9871]

Evelëen Vesey so you’ve been going since the age of 5? Youngest age group is U10 x

[@beatricefavor7394]

Sarah Lee they do younger ones xx I promise,but they’re are not national xx

[@luciehallallen2774]

I danced there that year! :) My last Worlds.. :/

[@fulconer]

the "traditional" part was very insightful

[@laurenwilson4773]

my sister teaches irish dancing with her aunt and my sister is only 14

[@shellpooge]

Sarah's new dance teacher.

[@jsfbr]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@pinkmagicali]

I’ve been doing it less than a year so not ready to compete yet. If I do...no wigs, no diamanté, no fake tan. I’m a simple style girl. It should be about the dancing not the costumes.

[@ramywiles]

That's about where I'm at, if/when I go back to competing -- as simple as possible, with attention to tradition in my appearance and musicality in my steps.

[@marilynlindstrom5626]

How do they do that

[@tanaschmidt3728]

Does anyone know the name of that hornpipe at the end?

[@ticklemepurple86]

Antonio Pacelli shoes for me : )

[@silvershadows21]

My school has the same jackets o.o

[@melaniellama6048]

why did the 12 year old not recall she was a little better then the older one

[@janemariehoward]

+German Llama You didn't see the actual performance of the competition since filming is not allowed.

[@laurenadams3458]

her comp was a harder comp

[@atropiaveteran]

Did they win that year?

[@MotionPictureMuse]

Not trying to be mean or anything, but... if you really wanted it, you'd stop making excuses. I started dancing at 19 and it's going extremely well.

[@letitiakearney2423]

He's talking out his backside. I danced forty years ago and our dancing attire were embroidered with beautiful Celtic designs and our cloaks were pinned with lovely Tara brooches. We all had our hair in ringlets and all schools had their own colours.

[@mjw12345]

Yes, some embroidery, celtic designs, Tara brooch but nothing like the total horse manure in some places now with the horrific, horrific, ghoulish, Jack the Ripper wigs and dresses splayed out like sheets of concrete with not an ounce of spontaneity or creativity.

[@ramywiles]

40 years ago back when this was filmed was 1970, and my guess is that he was throwing out ballpark figures rather than exact numbers. His point about tradition being a moving target stands.

[@halliemadigan4840]

Based on the timing of this video, I'm surprised not to see more cardboard dresses

[@jess50495]

most likely rutherfords.

[@brookefuentes262]

Okkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@kristinakelly7431]

V

[@laurenwilson4773]

my sister teaches irish dancing with her aunt and my sister is only 14