SEVEN news acts have been announced for a popular Irish music festival that’s less than 100 days away. Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann will take place in Belfast city from Sunday, ...

David Roy reviews Trad, a new Irish coming of age road movie centred on a teenaged former All Ireland violin prodigy rebelling against tradition and expectations ...

A gifted fiddle player joins an eccentric troupe of travelling musicians in this admirable homegrown drama from director ...

Though she is an immensely gifted, multi-award-winning fiddle player, Shóna is fed up with traditional Irish music. Feeling like these skills were forced upon her by her stern music teacher mother ...

WEST Belfast actress Antoinette Morelli is set to make her Lyric Theatre debut this August with the return of Marie Jones’ ...

The NY Irish Center will present its fifth annual QUEENS IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL at Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, ...

It was business as usual last year when former Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry started lobbying for Beldare, a large Sligo-based property developer with multi-million-euro projects under way after 11 ...

From rousing pub anthems to tender ballads, these are the songs that best show why Kelly remains such a towering figure in Irish music. The Dubliners’ early recordings helped establish that legacy and ...

It recognises something many of us working on the ground already know: access to music in this country is becoming increasingly unequal. For too many children, particularly those in deprived areas, ...

It’s a whole new era in the marathon. Gone are the days when elite runners were reduced to staggering wrecks in the closing miles, sentenced to days of shuffling around like a stiff octogenarian.

Irish folk songs are filled with wonderful, often sad, stories and tales of drinking and carousing. We've pulled together a Spotify playlist of the most popular as chosen by the public. From ancient ...

Kneecap‘s Móglaí Bap has opened up about penning the new song ‘Irish Goodbye’ – sharing that it was written as he struggled to “confront the reality” of his mother’s death by suicide. Announcing ...