Focal an Lae: Bodhrán
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Bodhrán (BOW-rawn) is the Irish for a frame drum.
The goatskin drum of Irish music, and the word comes from bodhar, deaf, because of the dull sound of it. It was a farm tool before it was an instrument, used for winnowing grain.
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A new Irish word every morning, 386 of them in the round, with the feast days of the Irish year keeping their own. Today’s word. More in the phrases, the names and the place names.