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“We need legislative change and we need it now. The future of Irish music depends on it. Only 19% of Irish music by Irish domestic artists and bands played across Irish radio's Top 100 songs in ...
However, the song is not the most popular Celtic Thunder track on Spotify at present. Instead, their cover of the Dubliners' "Seven Drunken Nights" has been a recent favorite for Celtic Thunder fans.
Patrick Kavanagh wrote a poem about his unrequited love that became the popular song “On Raglan Road,” which in turn helped make Kavanagh perhaps Ireland’s most famous poet.
In 1983, the band, U2, released “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” a fiery protest song that firmly cemented the Irish rockers in the history books. Written about demonstration that turned violent in ...
Hot 100 55th Anniversary: Top 100 Songs of All Time Billboard’s Top 10 Irish Artists ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4 ...
Almost 60 per cent of the top-100 most played songs on Irish radio last year were by white, male artists, a new study has found. A total of 71 per cent of most played songs were by white artists ...
Finding an Irish soundtrack for a St. Patrick's Day celebration doesn't take a lot of exhaustive research. Generic "Best of Ireland" compilations abound in outlet stores, on iTunes and even on ...
Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy duke it out with U2, Sinéad O'Connor and other iconic Irish musicians In honor of St. Patrick's Day 2017, Billboard ranked the top musicians born, raised and/or formed ...