A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...

A coffin with a glass lid, an IRA safe house and a woman with a drink problem who left her six children - these are just some of the unlikely ingredients of Louise Mulcahy's highly entertaining ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Conor Mallon’s 2024 US “Unearthed” tour is set to appear on Saturday, Sept.

As he enters his eighth decade, and after a fallow period of two years, composer Shaun Davey has resolved to "spend the next years writing the best music of my life". Not an act for the faint-hearted, ...

What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...

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IRELAND IS in danger of losing the craft of making uilleann pipes if it does not invest in training more manufacturers of the instrument, an Oireachtas committee has heard. Despite its Irish roots, ...

Band members of the olllam derived the name from the Irish word “ollam” (or Old Irish “ollamh”), which refers to a master poet, learned person or professor. They added an extra “l” to represent ...

IT is a source of pride that Irish traditional music - which 60 years ago was almost lying with O'Leary in the grave - is now pulsing through our big city centres and isolated country pubs, and is to ...

As the lineup shifted over the years, Moloney remained a constant in the band, playing the tin whistle and uilleann pipes (Redferns) Paddy Moloney, who helped revive traditional Irish music as the ...

The County Wicklow Tinoil (Uilleann Pipes Festival) will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28, in the Glendalough Hotel.This is the tenth year of the festival and it continues to go ...