These three storied folk songs have existed for well over 100 years, and they will continue to be performed for decades to ...

Whatever the reality, the song was conceived in 1985 by The Pogues banjo player Jem Finer and MacGowan. Finer came up with ...

For hundreds of years, the words were put to various tunes as the carol circulated by mouth, until in the early 1900s ...

Even a 20-year-old Brooklynite like Nora Brown has come to love this genre, having performed it for nearly her entire life ...

Check out some of our favourite Irish releases from the week below Walshy, It’s a wonderful life Dublin artist and producer ...

To celebrate this milestone year and a milestone Season 20 of this much-loved series, the Geantraí Christmas Special 2025 has ...

Leitrim-based Irish indie folk-pop band Irish The Vibes have released their debut album, Penny For Your Thoughts, and play ...

Success of Kingfishr’s Killeagh, written ‘as a joke’ about the parish’s hurling team, has been just one high point in the ...

A review of the film Gradam Ceoil TG4 @ Expo 25 when 12 Irish traditional musicians played a concert in the Hat venue in ...

The last year has seen some outstanding albums from both veteran performers and relatively new ones as well as some exciting projects outlining particular themes.Russian-born Daria Kulesh released her ...

In fact, the songs that were huge in 2024 were still sucking up all the atmosphere. Those that did muscle through tended to be in the vein of Alex Warren’s “ Ordinary ,” a title that describes the ...

Your Roots Are Showing, Ireland’s international folk, roots and traditional music conference, arrives in Belfast from 14 to ...