Wolfe Tones

From Billie Eilish to Electric Picnic: 85 unmissable concerts and festivals in Ireland in 2025

From Charli XCX to Olivia Rodrigo via Oasis and The Wolfe Tones, here’s how the calendar’s shaping up from January to November

Sat Jan 11 2025 - 05:15

Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty review – Hits the bull’s-eye again and again

There is no emotion that doesn’t get a nod in the singer-songwriter’s latest album

Thu Oct 24 2024 - 05:00

The Wolfe Tones announce ‘final farewell’ show next year in Limerick

Folk group set to play last ever Irish show after more than 60 years together

Wed Oct 23 2024 - 15:21

Electric Picnic 2024: The weekend in pictures

Kylie Minogue, Calvin Harris, Raye and The Wolfe Tones highlights over three days of music, culture and craic

Mon Aug 19 2024 - 13:33

Electric Picnic: On a great year for Irish acts, The Wolfe Tones arguably attract festival’s biggest crowd

Home-grown talent draws large crowds and responses from the festival’s audience in Stradbally, Co Laois

Sun Aug 18 2024 - 21:12

Electric Picnic 2024: Sunday stage times for all the top areas, weather forecast and more

When and where to catch Kylie Minogue, Raye, The Wolfe Tones, CMAT and more

Sat Aug 17 2024 - 18:00

Melodic munificence of JP McManus

Colin Coyle on housing for Westlife member, former Web Summit CEO tilling the fields, Kneecap’s film, the IRFU, Isaac Allen and possible encore for Wolfe Tones man

Sat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00

The Wolfe Tones’ Celtic Symphony and NWA’s Straight Outta Compton: Separated at birth?

Donald Clarke: Rap lyrics have been used as evidence against hundreds of people in UK courts. It’s part of a cultural divide that campaigners want to end

Sun Nov 26 2023 - 05:00

David Holmes: ‘I was able to see the real Sinéad O’Connor. She was fiercely intelligent, ridiculously funny’

The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer

Sat Nov 04 2023 - 05:30

Patrick Freyne: The Wolfe Tones love Ireland so much they luxuriate in its tortured history

The traditional group – the hip new band of 2023 after going strong for 60 years – performed at the 3Olympia in Dublin on Sunday

Mon Oct 23 2023 - 13:15

Teaching the Troubles: What are students learning about the 30-year conflict in school?

In Northern Ireland, most students never study the Troubles while the education offered in the South is patchy

Sat Sept 16 2023 - 06:00

Taoiseach says he believes there will be a united Ireland in his lifetime

Leo Varadkar said people were ‘reading too much’ into crowds attending Wolfe Tones concert at Electric Picnic

Thu Sept 07 2023 - 13:52

Young people should educate themselves about Troubles, says Bertie Ahern after Wolfe Tones draw record crowd

Comments come after thousands sing ‘Ooh, ah, up the Ra’ during Wolfe Tones’ Electric Picnic performance

Tue Sept 05 2023 - 08:46

Electric Picnic 2023 in pictures: From the early arrivals to thousands trying to see the Wolfe Tones

The best of this year’s Electric Picnic festival through the lens of Irish Times photographer Alan Betson

Mon Sept 04 2023 - 16:38

Irish rebel music is more than an endorsement of the IRA, it is a way to connect with the past

There was no ‘Up the Ra’ after Sinn Féin’s recent victory. However, rebel music is not the hateful canon of stereotype

Sun May 28 2023 - 05:00

‘Up the ‘Ra’ rings out at Wolfe Tones gig trumpeting a version of Irish history

Brian Warfield’s Celtic Symphony is played twice at 3Olympia theatre gig

Thu Feb 23 2023 - 06:46

‘Fields of Athenry’ composer Pete St John dies aged 90

Tributes paid to singer-songwriter from the worlds of music, sport and politics

Sun Mar 13 2022 - 09:06

Not even a wedding can derail the momentum of club championships

Business end of the provincial stage to come as Croke Park semis await for Leinster sides

Mon Dec 06 2021 - 01:00

Patrickswell dethrone Limerick champions Na Piarsaigh in semi-final

Limerick star Lynch’s side face Kilmallock in the final while Dunloy hurlers make it three-in-a-row in Antrim

Sun Oct 10 2021 - 19:30

Crowd of 10,000 attends largest open-air music event in Ireland since start of pandemic

Proof of vaccination, recovery from Covid-19 in previous six months or negative test needed for entry

Sun Aug 08 2021 - 23:17

The country that I love doesn’t seem to want me here

Ireland sucked me in, in that sad subtle way like a few too many pints, and I wanted to make a life here

Tue Aug 03 2021 - 06:01

I will be on the first flight home. I hope my grandparents will be there to meet me

Brianna Parkins: Australia’s restrictions on arrivals caused me to miss my uncle’s funeral

Sat May 29 2021 - 06:00

Bruised but unbowed Bellaghy emerge from a tragic history

All-Ireland club champions in 1972, Derry club suffered dark days during Troubles

Mon Feb 15 2021 - 06:45

Miriam Lord: Opposition casts Government as Duds’ Army after new Covid battle plan

Captain Micheál Mainwaring’s new motto is ‘hold firm and stick to the basics’

Tue Jan 26 2021 - 22:37

Lack of smiles all round: April Fools pranks few and far between in 2020

Fall in jokes and jibes surfacing, with a few exceptions, during coronavirus pandemic

Wed Apr 01 2020 - 13:24

Miriam Lord: Seanad candidates get their campaigns in full swing

Ruth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunes

Sat Mar 07 2020 - 02:23

Come Out Ye Black And Tans is number 1 in Irish and UK iTunes charts

The Wolfe Tones tweet says band will donate proceeds to Peter McVerry Trust

Thu Jan 09 2020 - 17:22

Wolfe Tones frontman Brian Warfield diagnosed with Parkinson’s

Musician vows to ‘just keep going... we all have our ailments at this stage of life’

Sat Aug 31 2019 - 13:45

Come Out Ye Black and Tans: Think you know what it’s about? You probably don’t

It has been on Alan Partridge and a Brady’s ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?

Wed Mar 20 2019 - 14:45

Alan Partridge singing Come Out, Ye Black and Tans both awkward and hilarious

BBC One viewers treated to a stirring rendition of the rebel song on the ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ show

Tue Mar 19 2019 - 13:27

Brady Family Ham’s Black and Tans: the perfect ad for the Brexit era

The Father Ted director takes the mick with his version of a Wolfe Tones rabble-rouser

Wed Mar 13 2019 - 12:03

Clare hurler Aron Shanagher out for 2018 with cruciate injury

Impressive 20-year-old will be a big loss for Banner County’s joint managers

Sun Nov 26 2017 - 18:58

Republic’s Orangemen proclaim their identity

It has only a few hundred members now, but the Orange Order is still active in the South

Mon Jul 10 2017 - 01:30

Saying goodbye to the Merriman Tavern

Drawing pictures for Enya, and singing songs for Planxty was all part of life over the bar in Scariff, Co Clare

Tue Feb 28 2017 - 07:00