Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year

The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known

Seán Keane obituary: Late Chieftain excavated music in a way few people could

A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music

Seán Keane: A giant of Irish music, a virtuoso player who wore his musical talents lightly

Death, at 76, of the Chieftains fiddle player described as a huge loss for traditional music

‘A giant of Irish trad music’: The Chieftains fiddle player Seán Keane dies

Musician joined trad band in 1968 and recently performed for US president Joe Biden in Ballina

Bridge Notes: Veteran competitors win main pairs competition of Clonmel online congress

Team competition developed into tussle between a leading male quartet and four of the current national women’s squad

Bridge Notes: Galway’s online congress attracts strong fields

European Bridge League has announced team championships planned for Madeira in June have been cancelled

Mick Flannery: ‘I listen to Leonard Cohen dying’

Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment

‘A matter of seconds’ – An Irishman’s Diary on the Rineen ambush of 1920

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

Galway singer with cervical cancer seeks access to clinical trial

Áine Morgan believes immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab can offer her a lifeline

In a word . . . Artist

Liam O’Flynn remembered as a ‘magical’ musician

Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told

The best of traditional music: 2016 TG4 Gradam Ceoil award winners announced

This year’s recipients cast a light into traditional music’s beating heart

‘Music brought me to Mayo’

American couple Bob and Pat Cohan have slowly but lovingly restored a tiny abandoned cottage, built about 1798, near Kilcolman, outside Claremorris in Co Mayo. Bob’s three cousins once lived in it and their memory is still kept alive