The bodhrán: Ireland’s oldest instrument – or its newest?
What you thought you knew about the Irish drum’s history is almost certainly wrong
Seán Ó Riada
Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music, 1951-1969 – Professing the power of ‘festival time’
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin brings subtlety and depth to her appraisal of the Fleadh’s progression from grassroots organisation to Ireland’s largest music festival
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Irish Chamber Orchestra: Róisín Reimagined – Surprises from the past
A revelatory collection and a high-water mark for a singer with a fathoms-deep voice
Poet Thomas Kinsella remembered as a ‘remarkable man with special grace’
‘Farewell ceremony’ in Mount Jerome featured music chosen by the Freeman of Dublin
Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland
Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive
John Spillane: ‘Why can’t you sing about Ballincollig if you can sing about Phoenix, Arizona?’
The Cork singer-songwriter has been writing songs to order, like an old-style bard
Sinn Féin selects Liadh Ní Riada to run in Cork North-West in next general election
Former MEP says she is looking forward to challenging Fianna Fail and Fine Gael dominance in 3-seat constituency
UCC music department welcomes record bequest of €2m
Gift from estate of Sidney V Regan to help equip new studio and support students
U2’s first ever press release pops up in monster memorabilia sale
1978 photo and poster got group its first gig but didn’t sell enough tickets for second
Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
Second-generation Irish: ‘We were outsiders among the English – and the Irish too’
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
A very practical approach to gift-giving
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
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, acclaimed musician and composer, dies at 67
Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers
Ní Riada vows to hold Oireachtas to account if elected president
Sinn Féin candidate tells supporters next great debate will be on a united Ireland
Cork choral event to honour Shakespeare and 1916
Medieval style singers White Raven to feature at Cork International Choral Festival
Courtney Lewis serves up an energetic slice of Haydn
The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold
Anne Harris: O’Riada’s epic clash of cymbals became a clash of symbols
In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism
Gaelic Catholic nationalism and corporal punishment in 1966
‘I thought he had finally managed to wrench my ear from its socket’
Riverside memorial to piper, composer and singer Tomás Ó Canainn
Ó Canainn praised for his generosity and non-dogmatic attachment to Irish culture
Seán Ó Sé, the legend
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
Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music
Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves
Greece Letter: Economic woe gives way to pervasive uncertainty
A subtle and unpleasant idea has taken root that nothing whatever makes sense anymore
Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?
Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists say
Walking on water from the Playboy to the Táin with the Irish National Ballet
A weekend forum will celebrate the heady days of the dance company founded by Joan Denise Moriarty
Clifden Arts Festival opens in north Connemara
Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights
Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway
Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published
Michael D Higgins granted Freedom of the City of Cork
President recalls family links with Leeside at a ceremony attended by several hundred
Battle lines drawn in Euro elections as FF pick candidates for Midlands-North West
Pat the Cope Gallagher and Thomas Byrne chosen to contest sprawling four-seater
Traditional musician Sean Potts laid to rest after Dublin funeral
Family recall a champion of Irish culture, a proud GAA supporter and a man who ‘lived for music’
Living here: A year in the miraculous Wicklow landscape
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
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