Willie Clancy
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In Australia I’m regarded as Irish, but in Ireland I’m ‘not from here’
- Abroad
- July 6, 2019, 06:02
This year marks an uneasy halfway for me, I have been in Australia for as long as I lived in Ireland. So where does that leave me? The truth, I have c(...)

Political chest-beaters steal show in white collar crime matinee
- Media & Marketing
- February 7, 2019, 16:00
Business journalists don’t get out that much. We tend to be kept locked in the basement to crunch numbers and write about profits and bonds. If we’re (...)

The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London
- Abroad
- January 16, 2019, 10:00
In the 1930s, a 16-year-old took to the roads of Ireland to make her living as a street singer. Her striking appearance and waist-length black hair co(...)

An Irishman’s Diary about Noel Hill’s Connemara nightmare
- Opinion
- April 14, 2018, 00:01
The fame of Noel Hill in Irish traditional music circles had earned him at least two notable mentions in song. One was on Christy Moore’s comic master(...)

The best music festivals and outdoor gigs in Ireland in 2018
- Music
- March 31, 2018, 05:00
With more than 30 music festivals across Ireland between April and the end of September, there’s one for almost every age, county and g(...)

Flawless master of uilleann pipes who left priceless legacy
- People
- March 31, 2018, 00:57
Traditional music lost one of its finest exponents with the passing of Liam O’Flynn. He was, without question, the most significant figure in uilleann(...)

Liam O’Flynn left ‘a perfect legacy for generations of musicians’
- Music
- March 14, 2018, 15:06
There has been a sad sense of anticipation leading up to the passing of Liam O’Flynn, or Liam Óg Ó Floinn as he was often referred to, amongst those w(...)

Pitch Battles – An Irishman’s Diary about an ancient tune given new life, via a marriage between uilleann pipes and orchestra
- Opinion
- February 23, 2018, 00:01
The 17th-century Gaelic warrior Alisdair MacColla is now all but forgotten, except to specialist historians. But he made a big impression in his time,(...)

Piper’s lament – An Irishman’s Diary about Johnny Doran and the fall and rise of uilleann piping
- Opinion
- February 1, 2018, 00:01
Seventy years ago this week, during the windy night of January 30th, 1948, a wall collapsed onto a man who had been tying his shoelaces at Dublin’s Ba(...)

Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation
- Music
- March 14, 2017, 05:00
RUSANGANO FAMILY It is indeed a long, long way from Clare to here. Some of the most exciting music going under the umbrella with its 40 shades of gre(...)