Dreamers Rise

I've always enjoyed this Ewan MacColl song, which I first heard on Planxty's eponymous debut album, but this gentle version (featur...

I'm not sure why this genial live recording stayed on ice for twenty-seven years — maybe the timing just wasn't right until now — bu...

Christy Moore : When I go to West Clare I can see the music in the hills and stony fields. Today I look out upon the Sheep's Head and o...

Ireland's TG4 has broadcast a superb documentary about the master uilleann piper Liam O'Flynn, a beloved figure whose modest mann...

The great Irish piper Liam O'Flynn has died, according to RTÉ and other sources. I owe my interest in Irish music directly to O'Fl...

Universal Music Ireland has released a modestly-priced CD & DVD package devoted to my favorite Irish trad band, Planxty. Entitled Betwee...

Andy Irvine has just released a live CD of his 70th-birthday bash two years ago, with a DVD promised soon, both of which are available di...

— In Devon, he assures her, lived a man who experimented in dousing and other devilment. He found by means of his dousing pendulum that som...

Until about ten days ago I had no idea that Andy Irvine had a new record in the works, and now here it is, whisked over the seas from Irela...

One The Humours of Planxty , Leagues O'Toole's collective biography of the Irish trad quartet has finally been released, a year aft...