Molly Malone was a character invented to send up the Irish, according to a new study into the roots of the song. Experts insist there isn’t any evidence to prove that Dublin’s most famous female ever lived in the capital or that she was a prostitute by night.
Professor Daithi O hOgain, from University College Dublin, [...]

Paddy Glackin was told he would have to buy a seat for his fiddle on a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Newcastle and nearly missed a music festival in the North of England city.
The highly regarded fiddle player has travelled all over the world with his fiddle and had always been allowed to take it [...]

Muiris O Rochain, one of the founders of the annual Willie Clancy Summer School in Co Clare, has died.
He was born in 1944 to publicans and shopkeepers Jim and Nora Rohan of John Street, Dingle, Co Kerry.  After qualifying as a teacher, he taught in Cahersiveen and Waterville where he also collected folklore from local [...]

FullSet have won the €5000 RTÉ Radio/RAAP traditional music bursary. FullSet is made up Seán McCarthy, Janine Redmond, Andrew Meaney, Teresa Horgan, Michael Harrison and Eamonn Moloney, with members hailing mainly from Munster – Cork and Tipperary – complimented by two Dubs!  FullSet released their debut album, Notes at Liberty, earlier this year, and they [...]

Christy Moore’s new album Folk Tale was released on October 28, 2011. “It is a mixture of tragedy, poetry and humour”, according to the singer’s website. The third track My Little Honda 50 is an ode to the impact of the Honda 50 on rural Ireland in the 80s. Easter Snow is a tribute to [...]