Dolores Keane: Soulful traditional music singer forged a path for other women
Galway singer who cofounded De Dannan and featured on A Woman’s Heart has died aged 72
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Cillian Murphy: ‘It was one of the greatest weeks of my life. I haven’t talked about it much’
The star of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man has been heavily involved in its soundtrack – as music has always been the actor’s most profound inspiration
Cardinals: Masquerade review – New ideas aren’t necessarily all they’re cracked up to be
Cardinals are enthusiastic musical pickpockets – and, paradoxically, it has made them sound entirely like themselves
Ye Vagabonds: All Tied Together – Five stars for this powerfully raw modern trad
Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn come off as a craggy Irish Simon & Garfunkel, an effect heightened by luminous harmonies and keening instrumentation
Best music in 2025: Irish Times critics choose the albums and acts of the year
From CMAT to Chappell Roan, and Maria Somerville to Rosalía, women have ruled the industry this year
Pillow Queens: ‘When we’re seeing trans friends’ rights being taken we absolutely let the music take a back seat’
Irish band reflects on what makes them different, feeling a ‘new energy’ and how their work has resonated with people
Sean-nós dancer Edwina Guckian: ‘I have very bad eyesight – which comes in really useful, as I can’t see the audience’
Edwina Guckian was thrilled when Zoë Conway composed a piece for her. They’re about to perform it with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Dublin
Lisa Canny on Biird: ‘Irish people are looking for something more authentic’
Canny, who put the 11-strong ‘girlband’ together, on the soaring popularity of Irish trad, hitting it off with Ed Sheeran, and how her lilting side project became a hit with neurodivergent people
Útóipe Cheilteach: The Mary Wallopers and more on Ireland’s ‘politically offensive’ underground folk scene
Celtic Utopia, Dennis Harvey’s new film, sets out to see ‘how young people are interacting with politics and social history with their music’
No laughing matter: Poor Creature on goth folk, Kneecap’s Gaza stance and their love of Philomena Begley
Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada talk about how the themes of the 18th- and 19th-century songs on their new album All Smiles Tonight still resonate
Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘Romance took a lot out of us. It was like a bomb went off, and then that silence’
The past eight months have been most hectic of band’s career – and a time to decide what kind of future they want
Fontaines DC at Guinness Storehouse: A match made in heaven
Support for Palestine and Kneecap evident from both Fontaines and Lankum
The Guide: CMAT, Fontaines DC, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
May 17th-23rd: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police
Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’
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