Kíla is a 1987 Irish folk music/world music group from the Irish language secondary school, Coláiste Eóin in County Dublin. Band History Kíla began in 1987 in the secondary in Coláiste Eoin, in the first year they busked nearly every week and played 44 concerts, mostly at their father's publishing company book launches, their mother's art exhibition openings and their brother's political campaign launches. Their first pay-in concert was upstairs in the Baggot Inn and was attended by only 3 people one of which was the broadcaster Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and her school friend Nóra Ní Chonchubhair and the Music historian and musician but then didgeridoo player Siomon O Dwyer. But Kíla's genesis goes much further back to the primary school Scoil Lorcáin where Rossa Ó Snodaigh, Colm Mac con Iomaire, Aengus Mac An Rí and Fearghal Mac Cárthaigh competed in competitions like Feis Átha Cliath, Feis Lorcáin and Feis Naithí as two pieces and three pieces. In 1984 at the start of his second year in the secondary school of Coláiste Eoin Rossa asked fiddler Colm Mac Con Iomaire and flute player Aengus Mac An Rí if they wanted to form a band to enter competitions like Slógadh. They asked their fellow primary schoolmate - whistler Fearghal Mac Cárthaigh, Colm's neighbour - piper Eoin Dillon and Rossa's brother - bodhrán player Rónán Ó Snodaigh to join them. They were initially guided by their whistle teacher Mícheál Ó hAlmhain and upon his departure by a past pupil come teacher Proinsias de Poire who named them 'Cogar' (whisper). They went busking, played lunchtime sessions , and entered competitions but never progressed to the national finals of Slógadh. After the departure of Fearghal Mac Cárthaigh and Aengus Mac An Rí before the summer holidays of 1987, they regrouped upon their return in 5th year and invited a guitarist, Karl Odlum from their class to join them. A classmate and budding radio worker for Bray Local Broadcast offered them to come on a show that weekend and so they all drove up to Karl's house to rehearse whereupon Karl mentioned that his brother, Rónan's classmate Dave Odlum, would like to join and was a better guitarist and that he actually played the bass. So they rehearsed 4 sets of tunes that morning and got a lift to the radio station where they performed for the very first time as the outfit that would