Willie Clancy

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(...)

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(...)

‘Séamus Ennis was unique,” wrote Ciarán Mac Mathúna, about the singular piper, folklorist and broadcaster on his death in 1982. “Of course every pe(...)

There’s a heap of things I miss from home, one of them is “loads”. My language over time has changed, I’ve started saying heaps instead of loads, c(...)

The natural kinship between pipe, flute and whistle are beautifully explored by Louise Mulcahy in her solo debut. Drawing on a rich well of tunes t(...)

On May 1st traditional Irish musicians, headed by singer Damien Dempsey, will host a fund raising event to finance a young Cuban uilleann piper(...)

The sheer breadth of expression captured by Waterford piper David Power in his latest collection will be enough to stop many listeners in their tra(...)

Majestic scenery, cute hoors and Gaelic Football; three of the most difficult things to avoid whilst galavanting through the Kingdom of Kerry. (...)

Hundreds of people at the weekend braved showers rolling in from the Atlantic over the village of Miltown Malbay to witness piper Liam O’Flynn unveil (...)

VARIOUS ARTISTS Seoda Ceoil 1 & 2 Gael Linn Gael Linn celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and, among other activities, the label (...)