NUIG is starting a new two year diploma in Irish music at the Galway campus this September. The diploma is offered on a part-time basis one evening per week (Wednesday) and runs over a two year period, at the end of which students will receive a Diploma in Irish Music Studies. Topics covered [...]

Traditional Irish music acts and songwriters will now get a cut of revenue from YouTube, as part of a new licensing agreement, according to The Sunday Times. Google, the owner of YouTube,  has done a deal with the Irish Music Rights Organisation (Imro) and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Ireland (MCPSI), which will see the [...]

Singer Paul Brady is giving €20,000 to fund places for 25 musicians to the tune of €700 at the Blas Summer School at the University of Limerick. The Paul Brady Blas Scholarship is being set up in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, home [...]

Irish Festival shows increase in numbers

Carey Parks of Cape Coral plays Irish music on his own tin whistles …

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

Eric Cunningham from Co Galway is the man behind the World Fleadh which takes place in Castlebar

AFTER years of growth in Ireland’s entertainment market smaller venues and performers are feeling the pressure as concert-goers tighten their belts

With amost 200 fewer students registering this year, Willie Week organisers are confident

There is a strong case that the best time for FF and the Greens to go to the country would be towards the end of this year, write Stephen Collins