Here are 4 classic artists taking on Irish music. Skip to main ... artists who have covered Irish songs. ... time Van was searching for his Irish roots,” Moloney said, per the book The ...

One of the constant themes running through Irish history is the importance of music, song, dance and literature for encouraging and forging a national identity. Yet, despite the theme being often ...

Irish traditional music is among the most popular World Music genres of our time. Performed throughout the world and patronized by audiences on a global scale in diverse social and cultural ...

The music is being enjoyed further afield, too. The Irish diaspora is partly to thank—“because of emigration everyone knows about our culture,” Mr Hendy says.

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 ...

The High Kings, a multi-instrumentalist vocal quartet formed in Dublin in 2008, brought their distinctive blend of ...

♪ [Sings in Irish] ♪ [scats in Irish] The songs that I sing are very much rooted in the language that I speak. And I feel the music comes from that. The two are entwined.

I didn't know I had Irish ancestry when I started The Only Song Worth Singing, or when Yeats’ book gave me and my grandfather solace in his dying days. But like the cry of the banshee, it called ...

Aer Lingus representatives, Music City Irish Fest's CEO Brenda Willis, Irish musician Niall McCabe highlight long ties between Nashville and Ireland.