Capturing a vanishing Ireland

Let’s hear it for buskers - on a jaunt round Ireland from Antrim to Limerick last week I was entertained by Mexican guitarists, a Nigerian saxophonist, a Californian banjoist, Peruvians playing the oddest imaginable bamboo instruments, and the ubiquitous Romanian accordionists.

Whatever happened, I wondered, to the fiddle and the uillean pipes? I finally found them in the Kenny Gallery in Galway, where an exhibition of paintings by John Connery runs until September ...