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One is the very first céilí in 1897 – while the other event took place almost a hundred years later. Riverdance in 1994 was an extraordinary performance that transformed Irish dancing into a truly worldwide phenomenon. Lorcan Clancy puts these two events into a cultural context in this short history of modern Irish dance.