Two seminal collections of Irish traditional music brought back to life

Archive releases Famine-era melodies plus mid-century recordings by Alan Lomax

Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland

Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive

Henry Glassie: Field Work – Quiet contemplations of creativity

Great Irish filmmaker Pat Collins documents the work of a famous ethnographer

The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London

Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

A rare and mighty force for good: memories of David Hammond

John Kelly on a film-maker whom Seamus Heaney called ‘a one-man peace process’

VerseChorusVerse: Outro – Terrific third album from former ASIWYFA lynchpin

Why Joan Shelley is ‘focusing in on the detail of our weirdnesses’

The main influence for Shelley’s fifth album was the time and space she was in

Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird

You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home

‘The meek shall inherit the groove’: the fine art of field recording

In an excerpt from his new book, Ian Brennan argues that field recordings can arrest the progress of a music’s form, and describes how he came across the extraordinary Malawi Mouse Boys

Donal Dineen: ‘DJing is storytelling with added button-pushing’

My youthful obsession with radio and music set me up for life, and, as I prepare for my final show on 2XM, the radio studio is still the most special place to be

Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac on folk, film and working with cats

An anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”