{"id":726526,"date":"2026-08-03T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:54:09","slug":"in-pictures-belfast-hosts-fleadh-cheoil-na-heireann-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726526\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Belfast hosts Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann, the largest celebration of Irish music and culture in the world, is under way in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdrv0z3lvx7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More than 200 events are planned across the city<\/a>, alongside competitions, concerts and street performances running from 2 to 9 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening ceremony began at noon on Sunday on a specially-constructed &#8220;Gig Rig&#8221; stage in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann, the largest celebration of Irish music and culture in the world, is under way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}