At 18, Charlie Le Brun travelled to Ireland, determined to meet his musical idol, The Chieftains’ Matt Molloy. After a memorable few months of playing the flute in a Westport pub, he knew he’d be back
Choreographer John Scott and composer Mel Mercier have adopted techniques of Merce Cunningham and John Cage for new collaboration
Paddy McKillen’s wine embarks on a voyage to America; bread giants have a word about a word; while the National Gallery of Ireland is unsure about language requirements
Kevin Conneff teams up with Tony Byrne and Joe McKenna for a celebration of life in all its local colour
These magical correspondences often contain a word or phrase that later make their way into art
The Claddagh Records founder is celebrated in a new book that comes with remastered versions of some of the label’s finest recordings
A musician’s musician, fiddler understood the emotional, spiritual and lonely quality, the darkness as well as the light, in Irish traditional music
Death, at 76, of the Chieftains fiddle player described as a huge loss for traditional music
Musician joined trad band in 1968 and recently performed for US president Joe Biden in Ballina
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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