The annual festival celebrates traditional music, song and dance with over 1,000 artists lined up in 40 venues across the ...

Eithne Vallely, who was 81, was originally from Donegal, but had lived for decades in Armagh.

Nothing lifts the spirits quite like traditional Irish music! Attend the very best of Irish trad music concerts from the comfort of your home with TG4's free music player. Irish trad music is all ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

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 ...

The St. Patrick’s season usually finds Boston overrun with bands doing a rowdy, rocked-up version of Irish music. Rest assured that Altan, one of Ireland’s finest traditional bands, doesn’t do any of ...

For the past three decades, Dervish has been at the forefront of reinventing traditional Irish folk songs. The Sligo-based band is "breathing new life" into the beloved music of its homeland with The ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a renowned traditional Irish musician following a road crash in Co Armagh on Friday. The PSNI ...

Eithne Vallely, the acclaimed traditional Irish musician, has died at the age of 81 after being struck by a lorry.

The Gloaming, amid folksy fiddle notes reminiscent of Irish childhood, inserts its own modern take on an age-old art form. The band, consisting of fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, ...

Among the first high-profile gatherings organised under the Irish presidency of the council of the European Union was an informal meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers on July 16-17th, ...