About us
In September, 2006 one of the Senior Dancers Leona Crawford finished her Teachers Training Course with Cairde Damhsa Irish Dance Teachers Association and when she passed her final examination Elizabeth asked her if she would be interested in joining her as a Teacher in the class. It was then decided to re name the class The Claddagh School of Irish Dancing and it has been going really well.Classes are held in Cherry orchard Community Centre. We have dancers from age three years up to our Senior Dancers some of who are also in Training for their Teachers Examinations. The majority of our pupils come from the Ballyfermot, Palmerstown, Clondalkin areas but we have some from Kildare and Finglas too.
Most of our dancers are made up of cousins, sisters or friends and have formed strong friendships over the years. As most of our dancers start at an early age we get to know all them really well and have been so lucky to get such nice dancers over the years.
Our dancers compete in Feiseanna at least one per month and the highlight is Our All Ireland Feis which is held in June each year. Even though our dancers compete against each other they will still encourage and congratulate each other on their achievements and help each other out In our organisation we wear class costumes or a simple skirt and top we are not allowed to wear solo costumes at all. Our class costume is Green, White and Gold with the Claddagh emblems on it. Some of the dancers have the costume in gabardine and some have the original design of green velvet. We had to revert to the gabardine when we found it impossible to get the green velvet.
We regularly go on trips with the dancing we have been to Euro Disney Paris, Wales, Germany, France, Oslo, Florida, Tacoma USA and many parts of England and Scotland including the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
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