From U2 to Aslan, Ireland has produced some of the very best live bands in the world. These five performances are up there with the best of what Irish music has to offer, boasting hard-hitting ...

Fiddle-player Matt Cranitch and accordionist Jackie Daly have been jointly awarded November’s Cork Person of the Month Award.

The group are known for combining pop rock with traditional Irish themes in their music. Since forming in 1990, they have ...

Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman will tour the US with its Christmas Symphony Tour. The all-female group blends traditional Irish music and contemporary songcraft, celebrating Ireland's history ...

"Shining trad music in a pop light gives it a cooler look to younger people - and it's the younger people that are going to keep these things alive." So says Oisin McManus - a piano player with ...

Irish music is working very well lately because it has such an open ... It all feeds off each other.” “I bumped into a group ...

That's a folk group, that performed largely vocal-less Irish traditional music while sitting down and whose image was largely 'guys in the back corner of a pub', beating some of the biggest groups ...

Ahead of a five-night run in the National Opera House, Oyster Lane Theatre Group has officially launched its Irish premiere ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to the founder of The Chieftains traditional Irish music group, Paddy Moloney, who has died. Born in 1938, Mr Moloney grew up in a musical family ...

I write about popular culture and the arts. The artistic sense of an ‘original spin’ on Irish traditional music reflects the range of musical influences that make up the distinctive brew of ...