Ed Sheeran

Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga quit Ed Sheeran’s US tour in protest over Palestine

Macklemore was previously removed from the tour after saying ‘Free Palestine’ at a concert in New Jersey

Macklemore says he has been removed from tour with Ed Sheeran after Gaza comment

Kneecap back US musician for voicing support for Palestinians and raising their plight

Singers from Cork and Belfast in Ed Sheeran-backed project star at Fleadh festival

Crowds at celebration of Irish music and culture hope musician will appear after his performance last year

Cork Kabin Studio musicians prepare for Belfast Fleadh collaborations in Ed Sheeran project

Singer-songwriter’s charity links cross-border youth music programmes for live performance

Celebrity guests arrive at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding in New York

Couple donate $26 million to 20 charities across the United States in advance of nuptials

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding: What we know so far

Apparently a gathering for 100 is expected at Madison Square Garden tonight, and another for 1,000 people tomorrow afternoon

What is shingles and should I be worried about getting it?

The common viral illness causes a painful rash, but there are very effective treatments

Ed Sheeran ‘on the mend’ as singer reveals he had shingles

Ed Sheeran tells fans he shaved his head as he wanted to ‘signify a fresh start’

Noah Kahan: The Great Divide review – 17 tracks about being a bit outdoorsy and hugely famous

Steel yourself for an album about tree lines, county lines and the invisible lines between you and the people you grew up with

Dermot Kennedy: The Weight of the Woods review – A landslide of dude dirges

The Irish star’s album is a missed opportunity. As the wonderful Turnstile makes plain, he should be making more indie rock with a pep in its step

Harry Styles looks to be here for the duration. He deserves to be

The One Direction singer has mutated into a perfectly modulated star for a generation at home with all sorts of ambiguity

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Documentary accompanies Yours Eternally, a song featuring Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia

Dove Ellis: Blizzard review – Thank heavens for awkward outsiders, and for this luminescent Irish album

Enigmatic Galway songwriter sounds like a storm-tossed mix of Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Jeff Buckley

Am I Irish-ish? I’m not not Irish. Being second-generation Irish in Britain is complicated

Us second-generation Irish in Britain, raised with back-home accents and framed aerial photos of bungalows - who are we really?

Taylor Swift: The End of an Era review - There’s nothing here that Swift doesn’t want us to see

Television: After decades of Swiftmania, does the world need this not especially revealing documentary?

Ed Sheeran at 3Arena review: Pop’s everyman superstar serves up Christmas bangers and beige ballads

The Dublin gig is a reminder of why Sheeran is both a streaming behemoth and a popular punching bag

Event guide: Ed Sheeran, Uncle Vanya and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead

December 6th-12th, 2025: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week

Keaton Henson: Parader review – An escape hatch from the tumult of everyday life

Keaton Henson’s new album is partly informed by his teenage love of grunge. But don’t expect a headbanger’s delight

Ed Sheeran treats fans to exclusive gig in Dublin

Gig at the RDS was for Spotify’s Billions Club with Sheeran’s top listeners invited

Khalid: After the Sun Goes Down review – The soul of bedroom pop, the ache of Billie Eilish

On After the Sun Goes Down, his gorgeously gauzy fourth album, Khalid basks in the glow of love and freedom

Olivia Rodrigo and Girls Aloud sellout shows help boost profits at 3Arena to €18.2m

More than one million fans flocked to concerts at Dublin’s former Point Depot last year

Ed Sheeran has just released an album. Why didn’t he want The Irish Times to hear it?

On Play, Ed Sheeran returns to his day job of churning out annoyingly catchy bangers

Patrick Freyne: Real Housewives of London shows what happens when you try to abolish shame

The real star of the show is a sanity-troubled canine companion to the owner of the longest legs in Belgravia

Co Clare village’s bid to reopen a local pub spells hope for Irish trad music sessions

Kilfenora Corner: A group wishes to purchase and reopen Linnane’s Pub as a community space with a focus on safeguarding musical tradition

‘Surprise’ Ed Sheeran appearance lights up Fleadh Cheoil

Singer sets up for crowd pleaser at Wexford’s Sky & The Ground pub

You’ll Be Alright, Kid by Alex Warren: expressive, exhaustive, angsty man-croon

Behold, the TikTok star who needs to learn how to play to the gallery

When dinner becomes theatre: ‘Guests love it. They sometimes even applaud after the carving’

Trolleys have returned to add drama and excitement to the fanciest of restaurants, this time carrying Martinis as well as meringues

Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s must have been groaning with future celebrities of the diaspora

We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be ‘culturally’ Irish

Ed Sheeran has as much right to call himself Irish as The Pogues or The Smiths

Television: What could be more Irish than a singer with a guitar emoting from the bottom of their boots?

Ed Sheeran: ‘I identify culturally as Irish’

Galway Girl singer (34) raised in Suffolk and has large Irish family

Bono calls for end to war in Gaza as U2 perform Sunday Bloody Sunday at Ivor Novello awards

U2 singer calls for Hamas to release hostages and Israel to be released from Netanyahu

Ed Sheeran has the closest thing to a song of the summer. Is that a ‘recession indicator’?

Summer music falls into two broad categories: songs that make you feel better about the life you have and songs that offer a fantasy of a more glamorous, more exotic existence that is somehow as magically affordable as the drinks at Club Tropicana

Self Esteem on the music business: ‘It’s things like dressing rooms with only a urinal which make women give up’

For Rebecca Lucy Taylor, performing as Self Esteem has been a way of unpicking years of anger at the way the industry operates

Hozier joins Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Hollywood stars on Time influence list

Wicklow musician described as being ‘as kind as they come’ in tribute from Noah Kahan

Mumford & Sons: Rushmere review – Old-school nu-folk might just give the band a new beginning

The nu-folk figureheads, now a three-piece, remain cheerfully bombastic on this spirited if uneven album

Snow Patrol at 3Arena review: ‘Am I about to die?’ Gary Lightbody nearly plunges from the stage in a thrilling Dublin show

Gripping gig is thoughtfully paced with blitz of singles followed by a pivot into slower, more introspective numbers

Eli Hewson of Inhaler: ‘There’s so much nepotism in every facet of life’

The Dublin band are well aware of their gilded backgrounds. But, they say, as they prepare to release their glossy third album, ‘We’re, like, kind of dorks’

David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s well worth the effort

Never mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generation

Andrea Bocelli: ‘My son, Johnny Depp, Ed Sheeran and Russell Crowe made pasta together, and were up until 6am’

A year in which the Italian tenor celebrates his luminous 30-year career will be rounded off by a well-earned Christmas at home

Love Actually and That Christmas writer Richard Curtis: ‘I still hope to convince my wife to watch one episode of Blackadder’

There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome change

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