Cormac Begley: B – The musical gift that keeps on giving
This swooping, soaring album showcases his bass and baritone concertina skills
Cormac Begley: ‘You want to stand over your work and know it had integrity’
Concertina player on his new album ‘B’, west Kerry and different types of breath
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh reinvents Ireland’s biggest songs
The Kerry singer’s new record melds traditional songs and orchestral arrangements
Two seminal collections of Irish traditional music brought back to life
Archive releases Famine-era melodies plus mid-century recordings by Alan Lomax
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
Irish Recording Company: Few know of these top-quality 1940s gems
An Irishman’s Diary: Story of the first trad record label under Bill Stapleton
Kavanagh death mask and miniature Ming bowl to headline upcoming sales
Poet Patrick Kavanagh's death mask and portrait of campaigner Vicky Phelan are among auction highlights
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Clare set: Frank McNally on two new books with a common thread
Irishman's Diary: Musicians bumped into each other on my desk via respective books
Mick Hanly and Dónal Lunny and a concertina convention: The best trad gigs this week
Stockton’s Wing’s ‘A Retrospective’ tour is also among this week’s highlights
Flawless master of uilleann pipes who left priceless legacy
Liam O’Flynn obituary: born – September 15th, 1945; died – March 14th, 2018
Master and patron: traditional music loses two pivotal figures
Liam O’Flynn and Garech de Brún enriched and strengthened our musical tradition
Liam O’Flynn remembered as a ‘magical’ musician
Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told
Liam O’Flynn left ‘a perfect legacy for generations of musicians’
The Kildare-born musician began on the uilleann pipes under the great Leo Rowsome
Martin Hayes: ‘I’m a complete guerrilla performer from the side of a mountain’
Experimentation and evolution are essential to music, says Hayes, who doesn’t miss the days of career-long contracts with labels
Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird
You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home
Dublin trad bar O’Donoghue’s on song as profits soar
Newly-filed accounts show accumulated profits jumping from just €31,255 to €537,955
‘When Séamus Ennis played, it stood your hair on end’
An extract from a new book on the history of Irish uilleann pipers paints a picture of the inimitable, self-assured Dubliner
Cracking the code of the Irish midlands
Cork-born film-maker Pat Collins is peering into the nooks and crannies of Ireland's centre ground. “The midlands are, maybe, more conservative. But... it’s actually hard to make an interesting film about liberals,” he says
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