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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tributes have been paid after Moya Brennan, lead singer of acclaimed Irish folk group Clannad, passed away aged 73. Nicknamed the “first lady of Celtic music”, she served as the band’s lead vocalist ...

TODAY, MANY STILL WORK TO HONOR THOSE TRADITIONS. IT’S FAST, IT’S ELECTRIC, AND IT’S FILLED WITH HISTORY AND HEART. I’VE TAUGHT DANCING NONSTOP FOR 70 YEARS, BOTH HERE IN IRELAND. THE SHARP RHYTHM OF ...

Cathal Forde, who crossed for two tries, said Connacht laid the foundation for victory in the opening half when they soaked up enormous pressure. Connacht trailed by five points at the break but took ...

Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers. Every year, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back ...

Cork singer-songwriter Cathal Fitz has released his new single, Walk of Shame, from his upcoming debut EP. We asked him the BIG questions .. . Walk of Shame is described as "a stark reflection on the ...

Fun fact as Tucson gets ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding: The guy who set Tucson in motion was a red-haired son of an Irish aristocrat named Hugh O’Connor. That could explain ...