Jennifer Reid sang workers’ songs, Malmin plumbed gnarly Norwegian hinterlands and Quinie rode across Argyll on a horse The 50 best albums of 2025 More on the best culture of 2025 Inspired by Talk ...

Whether you’re belting out “FIVE! GOLD! RIIINGS!” at a carol service or “parum pum pum pum-ing” along to Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy while putting the finishing touches to the roast potatoes, ...

The other great thing about music today? Very few people are content to restrict themselves by listening to just one or two ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – which comes from the word Seanchille, or “the old church”. The second ...

This visceral collaboration sees Enda Scahill of We Banjo 3 and the Swedish harmonica player Joel Andersson mine seams so deep that they unearth gems gloriously uncut across genres from Irish ...

The Vikings: Valhalla star and former rugby union player, 29, is Dunk in the new Westeros TV tale, A Knight of the Seven ...

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is simpler than other "Game of Thrones" entries, but its stars make for a good dynamic duo ...

Nollaig na mBan is an old tradition from the country's south that modern women have turned into a day to celebrate their labor during the holidays. Nollaig na mBan—otherwise known as "Women’s ...

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take. By Salamishah Tillet In our ...

We present an extract from the new book Tommie Potts: The Sorrowful and the Great by Seán Potts, published by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. The Sorrowful and the Great is the first ...