Check out some of our favourite Irish releases from the week below Dublin artist and producer Walshy shares his new Christmas single, It’s a wonderful life. Written from a teenage memory of a chaotic ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

We'll leave the debates over why the Irish are such champions of the written word — Is it the island's strong oral traditions surrounding the seanchai, or storyteller? The rich vein of Celtic folklore ...

As soon as it's time for Irish Christmas songs, we're queuing up The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" It is the most famous Irish Christmas song ever written, arguably the greatest Christmas song of ...

This month, we're highlighting some of our favorite stories from 2023, including this interview about a song with a beautiful history behind it. ROSE BETTS: I'm Rose Betts. I'm a singer-songwriter.

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

Ireland has thousands of folk songs, some of which are known all over the world. They often sing about history, Irish heroes, and the fight for independence. Ciaran is a comedian based in West Belfast ...

The Limerick, Ireland-born band The Cranberries were one of the biggest groups of the 1990s. Formed in 1989, the band rose to sweeping popularity in 1994 thanks to their sophomore album No Need to ...

Some songs don't have any more to them than a good beat you can dance to, and that's fine by me. Other songs have a good beat and layers of stories behind them. ROSE BETTS: I'm Rose Betts. I'm a ...