Máirtín O’Connor: ‘The Earth still turns and we’re treating it so badly’

Energetic musician on being commissioned to write The Mighty Ocean on climate change

Luka Bloom: ‘I’ve made a career banging a good sound out of a cheap guitar’

The musician’s new instrumental album, Out of the Blue, may be his most articulate yet

Christy Moore shines brightly in his natural habitat – the stage

Mary McPartlan: ‘The pain and sorrows of emigration are so rooted in our songs’

McPartlan has mined the common ground between the music of Appalachia and Leitrim