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 Irish folk singer, Christy Moore released this song in 1991 alongside an album of the same name. On his website he describes it as a "terrible title, strange album, sounds like I’m in a hurry, was ...

SPRINGFIELD — She’s topped the Irish charts with three No. 1 singles and a No. 1 album, but for Emer Dunne, performing in the U.S. is relatively new territory. “Folk music and songs from Ireland, ...

With over half a century's worth of experience performing live, Bob Dylan has played a vast selection of songs onstage over ...

This Irish folk band's stunning rendition of Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile, one of Ireland's best-known traditional songs, is sure to get pulses racing and strike a chord with anybody of Irish descent. Seo ...

The Pogues were a punk band that just happened to employ traditional Irish instruments like accordion, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, tin whistle and uilleann pipes in their songs. They were also an expert ...

“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 ...

On March 18, the Norris Cultural Arts Center resumes its "Saturday Night Lights" concert series at the historic Baker Community Center with a St. Patrick's Day-inspired performance by the Ragged ...

“Wild Mountain Thyme” is an Irish folk song with strong roots in Scottish traditions. The Belfast-based folk musician Francis McPeake took an old Scottish song from the early 19th century, “The Braes ...

Along with having to sing over occasionally boisterous crowds, one of the demands on Irish folk singers is that they play a marathon set — or a perhaps few of them — especially on that special day in ...

"The luck of the Irish" phrase dates back to the 19th century and is a popular one used among Irish individuals today. Beyond the phrase, there are symbols correlated with Irish folk that represent ...