One of Ireland's best known fiddle players, Martin Hayes, makes a return visit to the O'Carolan Harp and Traditional Music Festival in Keadue on Saturday, July 31st. Martin played to a packed house ...

Celtic music, says Robin Williamson — he of the late, great Incredible String Band — is “an acorn that will grow another forest yet.” Williamson could as well have been referring to one man, four of ...

Turlough O'Carolan was an Irish harper, composer, and singer, who gained great fame due to his exceptional gift for composition. He was born in Nobber, Co. Meath in 1670. When he was 14, his father ...

If you hail from either Co Leitrim or Roscommon, you surely know that we are not referring to that harper from Lochmaben Towne who famously stole King Henry's wanton brown. No, we mean Turlough ...

Turlough O'Carolan was an international superstar hundreds of years before U2 and Riverdance, Fianna Fáil MEP Sean O'Neachtain said yesterday. He was speaking at the opening of the 29th International ...

As the year draws to a close, a new album has cast a fresh and unexpected light on our traditional music. Sligo fiddle player Séamus McGuire has taken the viola out from the shadows and placed it ...

The Legacy of Stephen Grier is a landmark recording of carefully selected tunes from one of Ireland’s treasured (but as yet unpublished) nineteenth-century collections. This is a long-awaited ...

ONE of Ireland's best known fiddle players, Martin Hayes makes a return visit to the O'Carolan Harp and Traditional Music Festival in Keadue for the opening concert on Friday night, August 4th. Martin ...