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  • New Irish songs you should hear: And He, The Fool; The Wran, Last Apollo, GNS, Shampain, Cruel Sister...
  • Damien Dempsey “Holywell”
  • Galway Girl, my Arse

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nialler9.com /1 month ago

New Irish songs you should hear: And He, The Fool; The Wran, Last Apollo, GNS, Shampain, Cruel Sister...

Also featuring Vaticanjail, Sulk Hogan, Mickzart and Kadillac, mischa and the bear, GNS and Credence.

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americana-uk.com /1 month ago

Damien Dempsey “Holywell”

Excellent new versions of Irish folk songs that keep the flame of Irish history and pride alive. Damien Dempsey is a well-known Irish folk musician who has supported, for example,...

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writeoutloud.net /1 month ago

Galway Girl, my Arse

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rte.ie /1 month ago

Dolly Parton classics return to Irish charts

Dolly Parton's music has returned to the Irish charts following the country music legend's death, with three of her best-known songs entering the Top 30

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

WATCH: This live version of The Parting Glass will give you chills

Watch an Irish father and his two sons perform a stirring version of The Parting Glass in a pub in Co Cork, Ireland.

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irishcentral.com /1 week ago

“She Moved Through the Fair” - Ireland’s most haunting love song is a ghost story nobody can claim

Padraic Colum told The Irish Times in 1970 that he wrote “She Moved Through the Fair”, but another collector insisted he had recorded an older version from an old man who learned i...

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irishcentral.com /6 days ago

Generations of Dublin children sang a street song about an infant murder

“Weile Weile Waile” tells of an old woman in the woods and a three month old baby, and it was a skipping rhyme long before the Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners put it on record.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Irish music streaming growth outpaces the EU

A new report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) found that Irish music streaming revenues grew by 7.3% last year.

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independent.ie /1 week ago

Amano brings distinctive blend of Irish song to the Glen's Centre in Co Leitrim

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nialler9.com /1 month ago

Premiere: MAC GIOLLA GHUNNA - 'GWAN': black and Irish working-class voices in electronic rí-rá agus ruaile buaile

A music video premiere of Otherworld explorations through dance movement.

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irishcentral.com /2 weeks ago

"The Fields of Athenry" sounds like an old Famine ballad but it was written in 1979

Pete St. John invented Michael, Mary and their baby in a Dublin songwriting session, and the result has been translated into 50 languages and adopted as an anthem by Celtic and Mun...

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nialler9.com /5 days ago

Smokey picks his 10 favourite Irish rap songs of the moment

The Dublin rapper Smokey picks the Irish rap songs he’s into right now, from Dole Q and Lethal…

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flutetunes.com /1 month ago

Dublin Streets

This slip jig was included in the mid-19th-century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman. It first appeared in print...

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independent.ie /1 month ago

‘You will be remembered’ – singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe sends message to Irish footballers ahead of Israel fixtures

Rowe was among the Irish acts to quit the North American leg of Ed Sheeran’s ongoing Loop tour

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irishcentral.com /5 days ago

A young Antrim priest wrote “The Foggy Dew” in 1919 and signed it with a false name

Canon Charles O’Neill walked out of the first sitting of the Dáil so moved by what he had heard that he went home and wrote the ballad, then published it as Iascar to protect himse...

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irishcentral.com /1 week ago

Seven Irish legends to tell your kids as the dark evenings close in

A wailing fairy woman who appears in three forms, four children cursed into swans, and a boy who earned his name by killing a guard dog with a hurl and a sliotar.

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nialler9.com /5 days ago

Here are the nominees for this year's RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards 2026: Joshua Burnside, Lisa O'Neill, lullahush, Ye Vagabon...

Tommy Sands receives the Lifetime Achievement award and Dolores Keane enters the Hall of Fame at Vicar Street…

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irishcentral.com /2 weeks ago

The most famous song about Tipperary was first written about Connemara

Jack Judge swapped one place name for another in 1912 and ended up with a marching tune that sold nine million copies and still earns money today.

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nialler9.com /2 weeks ago

The Best Albums of September

Irish artists rule the roost, led by Gilla Band's Pugnello, with Trá Pháidín, girlfriend., The Mary Wallopers, Sorcha Richardson and Gurriers, plus Julia Jacklin, 300SkullsAndCount...

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nialler9.com /3 weeks ago

Madra Salach release new song 'Ribbon Factory' on Island Records

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thejournal.ie /3 weeks ago

Irish blood, English headstart in the battle of the bands

It was easier for second-generation Irish bands to get ahead in the UK, despite Michael Lowry’s Féile efforts.

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irishcentral.com /3 weeks ago

"Danny Boy" is Ireland's most famous ballad but an English lawyer wrote the words

Malachy McCourt's investigation into the song traces its melody back to the 1690 siege of Derry and its lyrics to a Somerset barrister who never set foot in the story he told.

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irishcentral.com /2 weeks ago

The murderous highwayman behind Ireland's beloved "Whiskey in the Jar"

The rollicking ballad sung in pubs from Dublin to Boston began as a poem about Patrick Fleming, a robber hanged in 1650 who spared neither rich nor poor.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

WATCH: Irish heritage sites take center stage as music series Anam Sessions returns

For the Anam Sessions, Other Voices is teaming up with Ireland's OPW to host music events from some of Ireland's most historic heritage sites.

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