About Us

Weekly group lessons and instructor-led sessions at Gaelscoil Uí Éigeartaigh from 7pm to 9pm on Monday nights. Every student's lesson now includes an instructor-led session in the hall, and we encourage everyone to take part — playing together is the best way to build confidence and learn new tunes. With eight instruments taught by dedicated tutors, we welcome learners of every age and level. Be part of a supportive trad community and play together.

Committee and Volunteers

Our branch is powered by volunteers who keep lessons, sessions, and events running smoothly. If you can lend a hand—big or small—we’d love to hear from you.

Classes & Sessions

We run 30-minute group lessons every Monday during term, between 7:00–9:00 pm. Choose from Beginner, Improver, or Advanced so you’re learning at the right pace. For Improvers and above, your lesson now comes paired with a 30-minute instructor-led session in the hall — included in your fee. We encourage every student to take part; it's the fastest and best way to learn to play as a group, and it's great fun.

Timetable

Level Descriptions

• Beginner: From just starting out to being able to play 1 to 2 tunes.
• Improver: Can play 3 to 4 tunes and has the ability to sit in on a session.
• Advanced: Focusing on learning technique and ornamentation and is able to learn a new tune each week.

Lesson and Membership fees

Our fees per term are below. We continuously review our fee structure to keep costs as low as possible but still allow us to provide funding for our paid instructors.

We do want to encourage everyone to try out new instruments and so we do offer a discounted rate on a second instrument. To attend lessons a Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann membership fee is also included as part of the lesson costs.

• Under 18 / Student: €75 for one instrument, €135 for two instruments (Comhaltas membership fee included)
• Adult: €110 for one instrument, €170 for two instruments (Comhaltas membership fee included)

Information about the Autumn Term - 2026

Our Autumn term begins Monday night the 28th of September. Class times are from 7pm to 9pm. See our events page for a full list of upcoming dates and times.

Setlist

Our set-list provides a great way to focus practice sessions and learn a few tunes that you can play along with us at one of our sessions. We host weekly sessions in our hall between classes and everyone is welcome to join in. We will have additional playing opportunities during the year so our set list was established so we have tunes we can play together as a group. We will be adding more tunes to our standard set list during the year and are open to adding new tunes on so please just join in and let us know what you'd like to play. All page numbers are from Seinn Port 112 Great Session Tunes.

New tunes - some great new tunes for everyone to work on during the term - the more tunes we can play as a group the more fun we can make the sessions. Please feel free to suggest additional tunes to add to our repertoire

Instruments

At Cobh Comhaltas, our mission is to foster a love for traditional Irish music in our community. Whether you're a novice or an experienced musician, we've got something for you.

Here is a selection of the instruments available for lessons:

• bodhrán
• concertina
• banjo
• tin whistle
• fiddle
• harp
• button accordion
• guitar

Renting

A limited number of rental instruments are available through Cobh Comhaltas or Crowley’s Music. If you have a Cobh Comhaltas rental instrument we have made it easy to register and pay for your rental online. Rentals are geared to give beginners an easy way to get started and are for a maximum of 2 terms and at the discretion of the Comhaltas Committee after that. Follow this link for instructions on how to pay for the current term.

Child Protection and Usage Statement

All of our instructors and committee members are Garda vetted and adhere to the strict child protection policy of CCÉ.

Gaelscoil Uí Éigeartaigh facilities usage statement is linked here: Usage Statement

Funding Sources

Cobh Comhaltas would like to acknowledge the support of Music Network, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and the Arts Council through the Music Network instrument fund to aid in our instrument purchases during 2024 and 2025. In addition we would like to thank Cobh Credit Union for the student sponsorship program to fund classes for new traditional music players. To everyone in the community who has supported us through donations and time, thank you all.

Contact

You can also reach out to us via email at comhaltascobh@outlook.com.