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 ...

Traditional Irish band Bula Beag have released their new single, Gra Siori. We asked them the BIG questions . . .

Kingfishr — made up of Keogh, Eoin “Fitz” Fitzgibbon on guitar and Eoghan “McGoo” McGrath on banjo — are speaking on a video call from Manchester, England, ahead of a concert to celebrate the August ...

Finnegan Angelos grew up in northern Baltimore, Maryland, before attending the University of Iowa to study creative writing ...

The tunes throughout House of Guinness range from era-appropriate Irish folk by Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones to ...

The House of Guinness soundtrack is among the best elements of the show. It creates a sound that is both new and classic by fusing modern punk and hip hop with traditional Irish folk music.

Past traditions meet a new style. Folk singer/songwriter Mickey Coleman is the latest sensation to hit the Irish folk music scene. A former champion Gaelic football player from County Tyrone, Coleman ...

TODAY, MANY STILL WORK TO HONOR THOSE TRADITIONS. IT’S FAST, IT’S ELECTRIC, AND IT’S FILLED WITH HISTORY AND HEART. I’VE TAUGHT DANCING NONSTOP FOR 70 YEARS, BOTH HERE IN IRELAND. THE SHARP RHYTHM OF ...

In 1995, The Rolling Stones teamed up with The Chieftains, a traditional Irish folk band from Dublin, to cover “Rocky Road to Dublin” on the album Long Black Veil. The song, which is originally from ...

A PARTICULAR IDEA of Ireland’s traditional music is fixed in the global imagination. You may have seen it play out in “The Banshees of Inisherin”, an Oscar-nominated film: as locals quaff Guinness, ...

Editor’s note: On Wed, July 5, 2023, IrishCentral's sister publication the Irish Voice newspaper, in New York, went to print for the last time. Founded 36 years ago by Niall O’Dowd and edited by ...