{"id":57908,"date":"2026-08-02T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/belfast-fleadh-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:23:54","slug":"belfast-fleadh-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/belfast-fleadh-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Fleadh: Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann has kicked off in Belfast for the very first time. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands gathered for the <a href=\"https:\/\/fleadhcheoil.ie\/event\/opening-ceremony\/106169101\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">opening event<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> in the grounds of city hall with a set by Ards CC\u00c9, the local branch of Comhaltas, which organises the Fleadh, and speeches from organisers, the first and deputy first ministers, and the Irish President Catherine Connolly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-day festival, which runs until 9 August, is the world&#8217;s largest celebration of Irish music and culture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are more than 200 events planned across the city, with live music sessions, storytelling, interactive workshops, dance classes and family fun days featuring in the programme. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg89jd44e8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann has kicked off in Belfast for the very first time. Thousands gathered for the opening event, external in the grounds of city hall with a set by Ards CC\u00c9, the local branch of Comhaltas, which organises the Fleadh, and speeches from organisers, the first and deputy first ministers, and the Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2886,420,15679,15678,16193],"class_list":["post-57908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-begins","tag-belfast","tag-cheoil","tag-fleadh","tag-heireann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57910,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57908\/revisions\/57910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}