Country music has long had a bit of Ireland in it. Irish folk music's role in rooting commercial mainstream country music to its past, including those of the settlers of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 400 ...

The band Dallahan has crossed the pond and will entertain audiences at the Heyde Center next week as part of its U.S. tour. In a recent interview with the Leader-Telegram from his home in the United ...

The other great thing about music today? Very few people are content to restrict themselves by listening to just one or two ...

“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he ...

This year, SpeakEasy Stage Company hosted the New England premiere of the recently reimagined revival of “A Man of No Importance,” a charming musical set in Dublin, Ireland about the redemptive power ...

On a grey day in central Manchester, the three founding members of The Mary Wallopers are chatting to me on the upper floor of the university’s concert hall. They play traditional Irish music, ...

Each January, Dublin comes alive with the sound of fiddles, flutes, and bodhráns as TradFest, Ireland’s largest traditional ...

With St. Patrick’s Day just a few days away, I want to share my love for County Mayo, Ireland. Not only is Ireland’s Holy Mountain, Croagh Patrick, in this wonderful county, so is the town of Westport ...

Hayes can still hear differences in the tradition in various parts of Ireland but an increased homogeneity is the inevitable ...

Who topped the Irish music charts in 2025? Data published by the Irish Recorded Music Association shows a "particularly ...