Although he had to be assisted on and off stage and only sang five songs, Cavan fans couldn’t get enough of Shane MacGowan

The High Kings, Sharon Shannon Band and Celtic Women topped the email poll at the World Fleadh

WHAT’S in a name? Quite a lot for some musicians it seems, after a spat between two of the founding members of trad supergroup De Dannan erupted into a public row as some of Ireland’s best-known musicians insulted each other on the airwaves. Alec Finn, who founded the band along with fiddler Frankie Gavin, sent [...]

Irish Music is thriving in Hungary – with concerts by Blackriders, IrKa-IrKa and Bran. Bran plays a in Bran Klub Jókai Klub, Budapest, Hollós út 5. on the 18th July – this coming Saturday. At  17.00 They introduce Irish Dancing/Ceili and classes with Irish Music, all of this is followed by a show and an [...]

Gerry Adams recalls the days he knew the Orange anthem ‘The Sash My Father Wore’ off by heart in both Irish and English. “My interest in Orange ballads was a natural outworking of a love for folk or roots music,” he writes in his blog on the eve of ‘The Twelfth’. He also lays out [...]

Since 1996 Boston’s The Dropkick Murphys have fused traditional Celtic music, hardcore, and just straight-up rock ‘n’ roll into a sweaty, swinging sledgehammer