It is possible to use the bodhran quite subtly as I have found out.

The music started again, this time faster than before; someone produced a bodhran and began to beat it with his eyes closed.

That was no harp, but the pounding of the bodhran.

Pat, son, run get my fiddle and your mother's bodhran.

I felt the drumming of the bodhran deep inside me, pushing me along.

Spoons, guitars and sometimes a bodhran are also used for rhythmic drive.

I didn't know whether fuld solace in his bodhran.

It was the sound of a bodhran.

The beat of the bodhran began to quicken.

I heard the rhythmic beat of the drum, the booming bodhran, urgent, compelling.

His men threw more sticks on the fire than necessary and one played a pipe, while another drummed the bodhran.

I started playing the bodhran this summer and I disagree that it distorts the music.

He also plays the bodhran and the bouzouki.

A soft beat registered, and she saw Scan, the bodhran in one hand, gently fingering sound from the skin.

Robbie Harris, who plays a small drum called the bodhran, is a cheeky delight.

I didn't know whether she had mentioned it to him or not-but the bodhran hung on the wall of their cabin, silent as its owner.

The fellow on the bodhran had arms like a blacksmith's, and the piper a taste for the mead.

Workshops are held for teaching dances and the playing of instruments such as the bodhran and the tin whistle.

Jim kept running his finger around the rim of his bodhran, trying not to stare at the elves.

And playin' on the bodhran with it?

It is an instrumental with Celtic influences, featuring the violin, bodhran, and tin whistle.

Workshops in the fiddle, bodhran, uilleann pipes, flute and tin whistle will be held.

Brazen trumpet and goatskin-covered bodhran announced the approach of the Dalcassians.

Richardson also once played the bodhran on an album by Tundra, a folk music group from Kent.

Ms. Ryan not only sings on the recordings but also plays the bodhran, a large, tambourine-shaped drum head.