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Claddagh Records
Lemoncello: Lemoncello review – Subversive and silky sticks of sonic dynamite
Long-delayed debut album shows strong traces of their influences but has collective force of personality to counteract them
Niamh Bury: ‘I was really shy as a kid. But performing always came easily to me’
Niamh Bury is about to release her debut album, but her talent is fully formed, thanks to years of community folk singing and inspiration offered by artists from Mary Black to Planxty
Radie Peat of Øxn: ‘I love murder ballads. I’m not mad about the fact it’s always men murdering women’
The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and Percolator
‘Chaos, conflict and creativity’: The extraordinary life of Garech Browne
The Claddagh Records founder is celebrated in a new book that comes with remastered versions of some of the label’s finest recordings
Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney and the reinvention of Claddagh Records
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
The Irish Times view on Paddy Moloney and Tony MacMahon: giants of the tradition
These distinctive figures left an indelible mark on generations of musicians and listeners
Paddy Moloney: President Higgins leads tributes to Chieftains founder
The musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83
Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland
Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Miriam Lord: Seanad candidates get their campaigns in full swing
Ruth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunes
Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle
Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in a forthcoming Sotheby’s sale. Jane Bolton who helped Browne set up Claddagh Records is still running the Temple Bar shop today
Garech Browne: Last Days at Luggala – ‘We’re skirting around the fact he was an alcoholic’
TV review: Mick Mahon’s jam-packed film is a portrait of an eccentric, lonely man
Fear of Luggala ‘Disneyfication’ drove Bono to try to buy estate
Sale would have caused ‘great pain’ if home of late Garech Browne had gone into wrong hands
Garech Browne: The spendthrift Irish aristocrat who burned through millions
Guinness heir synonymous with Luggala, the Wicklow estate where he held lavish parties
Compensation culture claims Shelbourne’s famous front door
Five-star Dublin hotel to remove revolving door after string of personal-injury claims
No change to public access at Luggala Estate, say owners
Trust controlling lands says gate near public road to close from 5.30pm over ‘duty of care’
Laughter fills the air as Luggala laments Garech Browne
Guests share stories of the man who had made a ‘unique contribution to Irish culture’
State urged to buy 4,000 acres of Luggala estate for public use
Mountaineering Ireland makes call ahead of scattering of Garech de Brún’s ashes at the site
Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for ‘the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair’ to be taken down
Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects
Losses double at record label that launched the Chieftains
Claddagh Records was co-founded by Guinness heir Garech Browne who died in March
U2’s first booking agent David Kavanagh has died aged 62
The music promoter’s agency had represented Christy Moore and Thin Lizzy
Master and patron: traditional music loses two pivotal figures
Liam O’Flynn and Garech de Brún enriched and strengthened our musical tradition
Nanny-state and teenage sex make for a cringeworthy Pat Kenny show
Radio review: Newstalk host airs pet peeves, while Miriam hears of liaisons in Luggala
Portrait of a Century: the changing face of Ireland
Kim Haughton has photographed 100 people, one born every year since foundation of the State
Luggala deal could allow Garech Browne to stay for three months each year
One serious overseas offer on table would accommodate 77-year-old custodian
Minister appeals to Guinness family to donate Luggala to State
Michael Ring says Government cannot afford €28m asking price for Wicklow estate
John Montague: A noble procession of poems has passed out of Irish life
Ulster poet had a ‘dramatic, engaged, fruitful literary life right to the end of his days’
President says Montague death ‘another great loss to Irish letters’
Higgins heard news ‘with sorrow’, describing him as ‘one of our finest poets’
Frustration at buskers ‘who play three songs over and over’
Fury over Dublin City Council’s latest curbs on backing tracks used by buskers in city
Mary McPartlan: ‘The pain and sorrows of emigration are so rooted in our songs’
McPartlan has mined the common ground between the music of Appalachia and Leitrim
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