Paul Brady: ‘There’s a huge coterie of Irish nationalists who don’t want a United Ireland’
The singer has been reflecting on his life to compile The Archive, his new box set. It’s been a rich, rewarding six decades in music
Willie Clancy
Musician
Fiddler Martin Hayes: ‘I come to the table with whatever little bit I managed to bring off the side of the mountain’
The acclaimed musician reimagines his album Peggy’s Dream with the National Symphony Orchestra this St Patrick’s weekend
Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinking
The fiddle player on becoming a ‘vegetarian, eastern-thinking, long-haired something’
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
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus is like the Taliban – it hates art
Covid-19 has destroyed live performance, we must support artists in reinventing it
In Australia I’m regarded as Irish, but in Ireland I’m ‘not from here’
The older I get the more I realise that, wherever I am, west Clare will always be in me
Political chest-beaters steal show in white collar crime matinee
Caveat: Apathy (almost) all-consuming as Oireachtas committee considers the ODCE
The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London
Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
The best music festivals and outdoor gigs in Ireland in 2018
From It Takes a Village in April, to Electric Picnic in September, via The Rolling Stones
Flawless master of uilleann pipes who left priceless legacy
Liam O’Flynn obituary: born – September 15th, 1945; died – March 14th, 2018
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
Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation
In the run-up to St Patrick's Day, Irish Times writers select the acts that represent modern Irishness
‘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
Festival Fit: Majestic scenery, cute hoors, Gaelic football, dance and song . . .
Mark Graham discovers all life on display in West Kerry
Sculpture of Willie Clancy unveiled
Hundreds in Miltown Malbay to see piper Liam O’Flynn unveil life-size bronze statue
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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