The significant impact of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill

The 1996 Féile Festival was both an end and a beginning. With Dublin’s barn-like Point Depot the unlikely setting, the event marked the death rattle for Feile, which had been in an ever-deepening tailspin since departing its spiritual home of Thurles.

There would be just one more Féile — a last hurrah in Tipperary — after which it faded into history and joined the great nostalgia jamboree in the sky.