Boomtown Rats among Irish artists hit by ‘egregious’ breach of royalty rights, court told
Just €2.9m of about €13.8m collected in fees returned to performers, artists’ group says
Paddy Moloney
‘You can feel the sheer joy of the crowd’: It’s Ireland’s year as 900,000 music fans head for Celtic festival in Brittany
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
Seán Keane obituary: Late Chieftain excavated music in a way few people could
A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music
Seán Keane: A giant of Irish music, a virtuoso player who wore his musical talents lightly
Death, at 76, of the Chieftains fiddle player described as a huge loss for traditional music
Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal pay tribute to a great blues duo
Old friends take their cue from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee’s 1952 album Get On Board
Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney and the reinvention of Claddagh Records
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
President pays tribute to ‘extraordinary’ poets Brendan Kennelly and Máire Mhac an tSaoi
‘We have lost so many people,’ Michael D Higgins says after deaths of two Irish poets
The Irish Times view on Paddy Moloney and Tony MacMahon: giants of the tradition
These distinctive figures left an indelible mark on generations of musicians and listeners
‘Were we right in the head?’ Joe Duffy asks as free contraception proves a difficult pill to swallow
Radio: Budget 2022 seems to have pleased no one, judging by reaction on airwaves
Paddy Moloney: President Higgins leads tributes to Chieftains founder
The musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83
Watching 9/11 unfold: A scene of endless horror
Conor O’Clery recalls how viewing the Twin Towers attack left a lasting sense of guilt and inadequacy in the face of catastrophe
No one felt safe anywhere in Ireland during the first seven months of 1921
Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Garech Browne: Last Days at Luggala – ‘We’re skirting around the fact he was an alcoholic’
TV review: Mick Mahon’s jam-packed film is a portrait of an eccentric, lonely man
Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
Nasa will put a woman on the moon by 2024, says former astronaut
Cady Coleman says moon mission will provide ‘stepping stone’ for 2030s Mars landing
Q&A: Conor Pope’s guide to Pope Francis’s visit
The World Meeting of Families explained and how it will affect transport in Dublin
Laughter fills the air as Luggala laments Garech Browne
Guests share stories of the man who had made a ‘unique contribution to Irish culture’
Pope’s visit to Ireland: everything you need to know
Why is he visiting? Where will he stay? and more questions answered
Daniel O’Donnell and Nathan Carter to perform at Pope’s Festival of Families
Pope Francis opts to sit among the faithful and not on stage with dignitaries at Croke Park
Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for ‘the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair’ to be taken down
Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects
Playing politics with the RTÉ orchestra cutbacks controversy
Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause
An Irishman's Diary on the 50 Irish words for wind
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Nanny-state and teenage sex make for a cringeworthy Pat Kenny show
Radio review: Newstalk host airs pet peeves, while Miriam hears of liaisons in Luggala
John Montague remembered at funeral as poet of ‘wonder’
‘He would carry words through the noise of domesticity to drop them safely onto the page’
Miriam Lord: Penrose plans to lead Enda on a merry dance
Labour TD talks of ‘impromptu concert’ to launch Bill on Irish music quotas
Weekend Gaelic Games Previews
Seán Moran and Malachy Clerkin run the rule over a busy weekend of action
Cultural greats honour Edna O’Brien’s life and writing
Gathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’Leary
Waking the Feminists takes to the US stage
The theatre protest movement held two events in NYC, with organiser Lisa Tierney-Keogh saying its time to ‘kick the f**king door down’
RTÉ to ‘reformat’ television arts show ‘The Works’
Series will end in its current form, but presenter John Kelly will return in the autumn
Traditional musician Sean Potts laid to rest after Dublin funeral
Family recall a champion of Irish culture, a proud GAA supporter and a man who ‘lived for music’
DIT honours Chieftains for outstanding contribution to music
DIT president stresses group’s role ‘in bringing Irish culture to new audiences around world’
National Concert Hall prizes for flautist Galway and soprano Davis
The überflautist took the lifetime achievement award, while the soprano landed the Bernadette Greevy Bursary
James Galway: ‘The flute was like a computer game to me – always going to the next stage’
The flautist is in Dublin tonight to collect a lifetime achievement award. It’s a far cry from Carnalea Street, in east Belfast
Riverdance team Fuse flamenco and fiddlers in new show
‘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
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
Astronaut ends odyssey with out of this world version of Space Oddity
Dublin-based daughter of ISS commander Chris Hadfield awaits return to Earth
Ground control to Cmdr Chris
Chris Hadfield, astronaut and lover of things Irish, gives an interview from his home on the International Space Station
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