Since it's not in my dictionaries... From www.ceolas.org: This ancient framedrum is traditionally made with a wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is played with a double-headed stick called a cipÃn, tipper, or beater. The modern Irish word bodhrán is properly pronounced bow-rawn, like Cow brawn, with a slight emphasis on the first syllable.
Usage: There was Harry the banjo and Dunne of the swan With whose bone from the wing he'd beat the bodhran And the song that he'd sing was of ganders and all He'd never get drunk but stay sober... --"Gartloney Rats," the Pogues, c. 1989 Terry Woods
Since it's not in my dictionaries... From www.ceolas.org:
This ancient framedrum is traditionally made with a wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is played with a double-headed stick called a cipÃn, tipper, or beater. The modern Irish word bodhrán is properly pronounced bow-rawn, like Cow brawn, with a slight emphasis on the first syllable.
Usage:
There was Harry the banjo and Dunne of the swan
With whose bone from the wing he'd beat the bodhran
And the song that he'd sing was of ganders and all
He'd never get drunk but stay sober...
--"Gartloney Rats," the Pogues, c. 1989 Terry Woods