The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Seán Keane
A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music
Death, at 76, of the Chieftains fiddle player described as a huge loss for traditional music
Musician joined trad band in 1968 and recently performed for US president Joe Biden in Ballina
Team competition developed into tussle between a leading male quartet and four of the current national women’s squad
European Bridge League has announced team championships planned for Madeira in June have been cancelled
Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment
From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Áine Morgan believes immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab can offer her a lifeline
Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told
This year’s recipients cast a light into traditional music’s beating heart
American couple Bob and Pat Cohan have slowly but lovingly restored a tiny abandoned cottage, built about 1798, near Kilcolman, outside Claremorris in Co Mayo. Bob’s three cousins once lived in it and their memory is still kept alive
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