some observers criticize this definition as being too simple steering suggests that governance is a straightforward process akin to a steersman in a boat these critics assert that governance is neither simple nor neat by nature it may be messy tentative unpredictable and fluidhe complexity of governance is difficult to capture in a simple definition the need for governance exists anytime a group of people come together to accomplish an end
The tradition of collecting our music continues today in the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, the largest collection of traditional and folk music in the world. As can be seen at events at Fleadh Cheoil, traditional music has traveled much farther than the 32 counties of Ireland.
From early times to the end of the 19th Century Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem. From antiquity to its decline in the early nineteenth century the harp was at the social centre of Ireland. Up to at least the seventeenth century harpists enjoyed a high status among all other musicians and in society.