The Irish-Jewish music stars of the Tin Pan Alley years

A look at some of the fascinating personalities and partnerships who helped to write the Great American Song Book

Meet the Tradfather: The rise of New York’s traditional Irish music sessions

The gatherings of professional and amateur musicians is keeping the tradition afloat and helping preserve Irish identity

Traditional Irish music session: ‘Good chance an eyebrow raised in your direction is consequential’

Sessions, such as the ones in New York bars, are the lifeblood of Irish traditional music

Songs of Laughter and Forgetting – An Irishman’s Diary about the emigrant music of Mick Moloney

Gradam Ceoil: rewarding Irish music’s wonderful anarchy

The infinite ways in which the music is woven, nurtured, challenged and enjoyed are highlighted by the recipients of this year’s TG4 awards

If you’re Jewish, come into the parlour . . .

In the Tin Pan Alley years, Irish-Jewish music collusions were common

Culture Shock: No ‘Danny Boy’, no rebel songs, just great Irish music

Mick Moloney’s brilliant Green Fields of America has been a staging post, proving ground and launch pad for almost everything that has happened in Irish-American traditional music since the 1970s

Niamh Ní Charra: Cuz