You'd have a big smile too if you were in Florida just about to board a cruise liner for a Caribbean holiday! These lads went along to play music for some on-board set dancing on a week's cruise in February 2000 - Dave Culligan, Pat Walsh, Ralph Morgan and Michael Sexton. Photo by the ship's photographer.
A dance at the Irish-American Center, Mineola, New York, in February 2000.
In Flannery's on 14th Street in Manhattan they dance sets to live music every Wednesday night, seen here in February 2000.
The dancing was so good during the Abbeyfeale weekend in March 2000 that your attention never wavered.
The Muskerry Ceili Band is a new band from Ballingeary, Co Cork, shown here at their first appearance in Co Cork at Castle Ahan, Enniskeane in March 2000. The members are Jerry McCarthy on box, Mark Dyson on fiddle, Fiona Ashley on silver flute (who unfortunately was ill with flu on this occasion), Brian McGillycuddy on banjo and Liam on keyboard.
Adam Dawson
A glimpse of the past - the young lad in this set is Patrick O'Dea, dancing with his mother Mary at the 1989 Willie Clancy Summer School. Photograph by Kevin McMahon-thanks to Vicky Salway for the loan of it.
A couple from the Commons, Ballingarry, Thurles, at the St Patrick's Day 2000 crossroads dance in Thurles.
Michael Loughnane
Eddie Beatty from Inishmore, the Aran Islands, dances a few steps in the ballroom of the Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort, Co Galway.
Copyright © 2000 by Doug Plummer
A visit of the straw boys to the Royal Spa Hotel, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, to celebrate a recent marriage. Photograph by Doug Plummer.
Copyright © 2000 by Doug Plummer