{"id":202,"date":"2014-01-11T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=202"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:38:54","slug":"ellen-obrien-playing-a-martin-doyle-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2014\/01\/11\/ellen-obrien-playing-a-martin-doyle-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen O\u2019Brien Playing A Martin Doyle Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo below is of Ellen O&#8217;Brien \u2013 a young flute player from County Cavan \u2013 playing a <a title=\"Martin Doyle Flutes \u2013 simple system flutes renowned for their ease of playing and quality of tone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/\">Martin Doyle flute<\/a> at the Life of Reilly Festival in August 2013. Ellen played a selection of tunes at <em>Flute Wednesday<\/em> segment of the festival with <a title=\"Matt Molloy | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Molloy\">Matt Molloy<\/a>, \u00d3rlaith McAuliffe, <a title=\"Laurence Nugent\" href=\"https:\/\/laurencenugent.com\/\">Laurence Nugent<\/a> and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen loves her Martin Doyle flute and feels that the tone of the flute is brilliant. She won the Ulster Flute Under 12 competition for dance tunes and slow airs, and then went on to the <a title=\"Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann\" href=\"https:\/\/fleadhcheoil.ie\/\">All-Ireland competitions<\/a> and really enjoyed the whole experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_208\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-208\" title=\"Ellen O'Brien playing her Martin Doyle flute\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ellen-obrien.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen O'Brien playing her Martin Doyle flute\" width=\"606\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ellen-obrien.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ellen-obrien-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen O&#8217;Brien playing her Martin Doyle flute.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@martindoyleflutes7588\">Martin Doyle Flutes | YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"Ellen O\u2019Brien Plays A Reel | News - Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2019\/02\/13\/ellen-obrien-plays-a-reel\/\">Ellen O\u2019Brien Plays A Reel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo below is of Ellen O&#8217;Brien \u2013 a young flute player from County Cavan \u2013 playing a Martin Doyle flute at the Life of Reilly Festival in August 2013. Ellen played a selection of tunes at Flute Wednesday segment of the festival with Matt Molloy, \u00d3rlaith McAuliffe, Laurence Nugent and many others. Ellen loves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,9,4,5],"tags":[142,143,144,23,36,38,146,145],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flute-players","category-irish-flutes","category-irish-traditional-music","category-martin-doyle-flutes","tag-all-ireland","tag-competitions","tag-ellen-obrien","tag-flute","tag-irish","tag-music","tag-player","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}