Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It did.
Like, I mean, even in the 1970s, there was such a big, the popularity of Irish dancing in America was insane.
That's why they actually created the World Championships.
The first international person to win the World Championships was Michael Flatley, actually.
But yes, post-Riverdance, I suppose, it went into this new era where you would have had like Irish expats in Boston and New York who obviously would have kept Irish dancing alive forever.
But from the 90s on, you would have had parts of Asia where you wouldn't have a big Irish community where Irish dancing was being picked up by people who were the first person in their generation to ever do it.
So it's global.
It's probably one of our biggest cultural exports, I would say, as a country.
Yes.
And actually, what was interesting was in the years after Riverdance, girls started showing up to Irish dancing costumes with like the black tights and the beautiful velvet dress and like a slim back and as beautiful as Jean looked.
But because they weren't being marked up and because they didn't win, that was done away with very quickly.
And it went back to the big glam kind of like jeweled costumes that we're familiar with.
But it does, in reality.
I mean, everything in Irish dancing is about winning and anything that isn't rewarded with high marks by judges will be jettisoned very, very quickly.
So basically what had emerged was that there was a big allegation made to CLRG that summer in 2022 that there was initially 12 teachers accused of what became known as fesh fixing.
So where you text another teacher or judge and prearrange for them to mark up your dancer in a competition before it's even happened.
That obviously exploded.
More allegations came in.
And in the end, 44 people were accused of the practice that we refer to as fesh fixing.
Now, how this works is
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