One of the most popular bands to emerge from Ireland ... Sinéad O’Connor joins The Chieftains in performing this traditional Irish folk song written about the 1916 Easter Rebellion.

“Wild Mountain Thyme” is an Irish folk song with strong roots in Scottish ... It has since become a popular Irish favorite, recorded dozens of times by artists including Judy Collins, Joan ...

Their manager Matthew Jordan said that since Covid-19, the band's genre of music has become really popular ... songs and the music," he added. "It's got people interested again in traditional ...

Scotch-Irish balladry and fiddle ... vaudeville, and the popular music industry all introduced styles and songs that became part of Southern folk traditions. At the home of Terry Wootten on ...

The Pogues are a popular Irish folk rock band of the 1980s and ... While the first album had featured a higher percentage of traditional songs, Shane MacGowan came into his own as a songwriter ...

WFUV's popular Saturday morning program of traditional Irish music. Mary Snow worked at both CNN and Al Jazeera, Marie Hickey is currently at Extra TV, and Mary Maguire worked at The Corporation ...

An excerpt from Peter Himmelman’s new book, “Suspended by No String: A songwriter’s Reflections on Faith, Aliveness, and ...

FOLK musicians from Limerick and beyond will come together to raise funds for IMNDA (Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association) ...

Rachel’s knowledge of traditional song allowed them to add material ... The following month (Sunday, June 18) hugely-popular Irish folk band The High Kings will bring The Fire Station’s ...

Who are the Wolfe Tones? The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel folk music band best known for singing songs which have been condemned as supporting the IRA. The band was formed in 1963 in the ...

The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.