This year’s Festival Interceltique de Lorient sees 5,000 artists from around the world performing in the French naval town, with Ireland the featured Celtic nation
A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music
Death, at 76, of the Chieftains fiddle player described as a huge loss for traditional music
Old friends take their cue from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee’s 1952 album Get On Board
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
‘We have lost so many people,’ Michael D Higgins says after deaths of two Irish poets
These distinctive figures left an indelible mark on generations of musicians and listeners
Radio: Budget 2022 seems to have pleased no one, judging by reaction on airwaves
The musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83
Conor O’Clery recalls how viewing the Twin Towers attack left a lasting sense of guilt and inadequacy in the face of catastrophe
Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
TV review: Mick Mahon’s jam-packed film is a portrait of an eccentric, lonely man
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
