Long-delayed debut album shows strong traces of their influences but has collective force of personality to counteract them
Claddagh Records
Niamh Bury is about to release her debut album, but her talent is fully formed, thanks to years of community folk singing and inspiration offered by artists from Mary Black to Planxty
The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and Percolator
The Claddagh Records founder is celebrated in a new book that comes with remastered versions of some of the label’s finest recordings
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
These distinctive figures left an indelible mark on generations of musicians and listeners
The musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83
Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Ruth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunes
Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in a forthcoming Sotheby’s sale. Jane Bolton who helped Browne set up Claddagh Records is still running the Temple Bar shop today
TV review: Mick Mahon’s jam-packed film is a portrait of an eccentric, lonely man
Sale would have caused ‘great pain’ if home of late Garech Browne had gone into wrong hands
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