Piper Peter Browne has searched the RTE and BMG archives for the music of the Clare piper

Aided by screen photos, videos and recordings, Barney McKenna and John Sheahan were joined on the road in Germany by Dubliners past and present for a series of memorial concerts.

History of Celtic rock, or punk, from Fairport Convention to Horslips, Pogues, and Dropkick Murphys

Marie Brouder learned her set dancing in Ireland before emigrating to Australia …

Foinse, which closed last June with the loss of 10 jobs, has returned, as an insert in the Irish Independent daily newspaper, every Wednesday, starting November 18. A disagreement over grants from its main funder, Foras na Gaeilge, and falling advertising revenue led to the closure.
The newly revitalised Irish language newspaper will bring a fresh [...]

Donal Lunny talks about university life in Limerick …

Costume designer Jen Kelly claimed he had been “airbrushed out of history” before widthdrawing his €800,000 legal case against the Riverdance company in a Dublin court. He claimed his costumes had been used without his permission. Full story Irish Times

It has rang out at packed sports arena, been done to death by drunks at closing time,denounced as sectarian, balladed, rocked and punked.
Often mistaken as a folk song, The Fields of Athenry was actually written by Dublin songwriter Pete St John in the mid 1970s. It is set during the Great Famine which devestated Ireland [...]

After a decade and a half and seven studio albums, Solas … Read More

Neck have a new album of songs based on the Granny link … Go to http://www.irishpost.ie/tabId/310/itemId/6655/Sticking-their-necks-out-for-music.aspx

Irish music sales – already hugely depressed as a result of illegal downloading – have hit a new low. Overall, album sales are down by 23.6 per cent on last year. Bands have been dropped from rosters, distributors and shops have shut their doors, record company staff are being laid off. Sunday Business P0st