Seamus Ennis

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

The Friel Sisters: Before The Sun – Glasgow girls let their Donegal roots shine

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

Ergodos Musicians: Songs

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

Piping hot on a Caribbean island

An Irishwoman’s Diary about a musical export

Gavin Whelan: Catch the Air

Various Artists: Seoda Ceoil 1 & 2

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