Composer and musician
Fiddle player, sean nós singer and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up speaking Irish in Dublin, her hit podcast How to Gael, and her new show about Irish womanhood
The sportscaster sounds moved as RTÉ’s flagship news show takes on an uncharacteristically celebratory air
Kilfenora Corner: A group wishes to purchase and reopen Linnane’s Pub as a community space with a focus on safeguarding musical tradition
While the drum is now part of many traditional Irish ensembles, it only arrived on the scene in the 1950s
What you thought you knew about the Irish drum’s history is almost certainly wrong
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin brings subtlety and depth to her appraisal of the Fleadh’s progression from grassroots organisation to Ireland’s largest music festival
A revelatory collection and a high-water mark for a singer with a fathoms-deep voice
‘Farewell ceremony’ in Mount Jerome featured music chosen by the Freeman of Dublin
Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive
The Cork singer-songwriter has been writing songs to order, like an old-style bard
Former MEP says she is looking forward to challenging Fianna Fail and Fine Gael dominance in 3-seat constituency
Gift from estate of Sidney V Regan to help equip new studio and support students
1978 photo and poster got group its first gig but didn’t sell enough tickets for second
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home
Whatever about the practice of gifting household items to your other half, it takes a certain type of steeliness to introduce this lovely Christmas tradition to the chislers
Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers
Sinn Féin candidate tells supporters next great debate will be on a united Ireland
Medieval style singers White Raven to feature at Cork International Choral Festival
The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold
In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism
‘I thought he had finally managed to wrench my ear from its socket’
Ó Canainn praised for his generosity and non-dogmatic attachment to Irish culture
Patricia Ahern recounts how she co-wrote the memoirs of singer Seán Ó Sé, from An Poc ar Buile to working with Seán Ó Riada and Dónal Lunny and his fight with cancer
Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves
A subtle and unpleasant idea has taken root that nothing whatever makes sense anymore
Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists say
A weekend forum will celebrate the heady days of the dance company founded by Joan Denise Moriarty
Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights
Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published
President recalls family links with Leeside at a ceremony attended by several hundred
Pat the Cope Gallagher and Thomas Byrne chosen to contest sprawling four-seater
Family recall a champion of Irish culture, a proud GAA supporter and a man who ‘lived for music’
For three centuries poets and painters of the loftiest reputations have been drawn into the magically timeless clutches of this Wicklow retreat. For me, it fell into my clutches, by cosmic coincidence, when I sold my house in the Dublin Mountains in December 2012 and needed a place to stay
The stated aim of a new concert series is to create a new canon of Irish works and make them repertoire standards. Good luck with that
Liadh Ní Riada says there is a need for more women’s voices in Irish politics
A gift and the fulfilment of its promise is a rare thing, but Seamus Heaney achieved it
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
