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March 17 is St. Patrick's Day and whatever your annual tradition is, searching for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow might be on the list. Unfortunately, while you're unlikely to discover a hidden ...

The Broadway sensation Once, originally a 2007 Irish musical film, has evolved over the years into an international feel-good spectacular -- one that embraces sadness as part of love and life. Stuart ...

Two Gardaí in County Cork made sure it was a birthday to remember for a local elderly resident when they serenaded him with an old Irish folk song from a safe and social distance. Inspector McPolin ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

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

“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he ...