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
Cady Coleman says moon mission will provide ‘stepping stone’ for 2030s Mars landing
The World Meeting of Families explained and how it will affect transport in Dublin
Guests share stories of the man who had made a ‘unique contribution to Irish culture’
Why is he visiting? Where will he stay? and more questions answered
Pope Francis opts to sit among the faithful and not on stage with dignitaries at Croke Park
Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects
Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause
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Radio review: Newstalk host airs pet peeves, while Miriam hears of liaisons in Luggala
‘He would carry words through the noise of domesticity to drop them safely onto the page’
Labour TD talks of ‘impromptu concert’ to launch Bill on Irish music quotas
Seán Moran and Malachy Clerkin run the rule over a busy weekend of action
Gathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’Leary
The theatre protest movement held two events in NYC, with organiser Lisa Tierney-Keogh saying its time to ‘kick the f**king door down’
Series will end in its current form, but presenter John Kelly will return in the autumn
Family recall a champion of Irish culture, a proud GAA supporter and a man who ‘lived for music’
DIT president stresses group’s role ‘in bringing Irish culture to new audiences around world’
The überflautist took the lifetime achievement award, while the soprano landed the Bernadette Greevy Bursary
The flautist is in Dublin tonight to collect a lifetime achievement award. It’s a far cry from Carnalea Street, in east Belfast
‘Heartbeat of Home’, a new dance show from the creators of ‘Riverdance’, with lyrics by Joseph O’Connor and music by Brian Byrne, is drawing a new musical map of Ireland
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
Dublin-based daughter of ISS commander Chris Hadfield awaits return to Earth
Chris Hadfield, astronaut and lover of things Irish, gives an interview from his home on the International Space Station
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
