“Banjo” Barney McKenna, the last original member of Irish folk band the Dubliners, died Thursday, April 5, while having a morning cup of tea with a friend. He was 72 and had just marked his 50th year ...

Ronnie Drew, the gravelly voiced folk singer and guitarist who founded the Irish group the Dubliners and also sang with the Pogues and other rock bands, died on Saturday in Dublin. He was 73. Mr. Drew ...

The Irish Rover was a majestic vessel sailing the Atlantic from New York City east to Cork, Ireland. Immortalized in an Irish folk song, the original ship had 23 masts, which gradually shifted in ...

Everyone from The Dubliners to Denise Chaila makes an appearance in this succinct yet wide-ranging playlist of Irish music from Oprah Magazine. In a 2021 piece for Oprah Magazine, culture and music ...

To some listeners, Irish folk music suggests a vista of the Wee Folk prancing in a Donegal sunrise, described in the sad sweet tones of John McCormack. But Ireland is currently in the middle of a folk ...

The Dubliners are as well-loved now as they ever were. For 50 years, they toured the world with their lively renditions of Irish folk songs, traditional street ballads and instrumentals. Did you know ...

One was a rock band that got songs on the radio without Celtic music. The other was the Irish band doing covers no one else had done on songs people heard as acoustic, folk ballads to that point. We ...

Record producer who worked with the biggest names in folk music from the 1950s onwards ...

Traditional Irish music is a staple in the pubs of Ireland. Big cities like Dublin and small villages like Blarney all celebrate through music. And according to TrdConnect, a website connecting trad ...