The Irish Times

Normal People: Who are the Irish musicians on the soundtrack?

The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a shop window for the best of Irish music

Mon May 04 2020 - 12:59

After Covid-19: What kind of life will be waiting on the other side?

People share their experience of the pandemic and their hopes for life afterwards

Sat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00

The choice is yours: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

The 1975, The Script, Lewis Capaldi, Jape, John Hopkins, Lyra and Choice Music Prize

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00

Fáilte Ireland launches €6m campaign to boost holidays at home

Discovering ‘hidden gems’ at heart of push to increase staycation business by €100m

Fri Feb 21 2020 - 05:39

Mango x MathMan: 'Prosperity is for those who are given it'

The Dublin duo's debut is filled with sounds of the capital, overlaid with sincere and bittersweet observations of everything that's good and bad about the place they call home

Sat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00

Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project

Live installation will be presented at the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival in Cork

Sat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00

How much I have missed this place, this island, my homeland

My list of all the things I love about being back in Ireland has resonated around the world

Mon Sept 02 2019 - 10:54

Bringing kids to festivals is the worst kind of performance parenting

Jennifer O'Connell: If you thought I was fun before I had kids, the toddler-toting festival-goers brag, see me now!

Sat Aug 17 2019 - 06:03

Patti Smith brings them All Together Now: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

Indiependence, Lethal Dialect, Richard Thompson and a celebration of Elliott Smith

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00

Harmonious Irish-German links underscored by music

Michael D Higgins and Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend Other Voices concert in Berlin

Thu Jul 04 2019 - 21:02

Lisa Hannigan and Stargaze: Live in Dublin – a musical match made in the heavens

The singer’s delicate songs are enhanced by sumptuous orchestral arrangements

Fri May 31 2019 - 05:00

The National: I Am Easy to Find review – A bold ambitious collision of the past, present

Band’s eighth studio record interrogates and takes apart what brought them together

Fri May 17 2019 - 15:09

Kíla ‘Cúl an Tí’ recordings aim to inspire interest in Irish songs

Experimental music launch features animation by Cartoon Saloon and music by Imelda May, Mundy and Mary Coughlan

Fri Nov 16 2018 - 13:22

No plans for the bank holiday and Halloween? You need to read this

From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Thu Oct 25 2018 - 14:20

Kylie and the Bunnymen: This week’s must-see rock and pop gigs

Plus: Lisa Hannigan, They Might Be Giants, Saint Sister, Emmy the Great and . . . Coolio!

Sat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00

New artist of the week: Just Mustard

Plus: songs you have to hear from Anna Mullarkey and Rosie Carney

Sat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00

Big Red Machine review: Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and the National's Aaron Dessner hit sweet spot

Fri Aug 31 2018 - 05:00

‘Music is made in communities’: Aaron and Bryce Dessner’s new vision

The National’s guitarists are part of People, a community of musicians creating new spaces and platforms

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 07:00

Ed Sheeran wows intimate crowd at London Irish Centre

Fans pay up to £3,500 to attend fundraiser alongside the great and good of city’s Irish

Wed Jun 20 2018 - 10:17

Ed Sheeran: ‘My Irish heritage is something I’ve always been proud of’

London’s Irish community get ready for a blast of Ed Sheeran

Tue Jun 19 2018 - 11:55