Music Archive
The Irish in Country: Putting the Celtic Fringe on the Music Charts
Just hours before winning a Grammy, country singer Kathy Mattea reminisced about her first meeting…
Yankee Doodle Irish
This is a song about George M. Cohan. CO-HAN, not Coen. And yet, when I…
Black ’47: The Clancy Brothers of the 90’s?
As Larry Kirwan, the wiry lead guitarist and singer drags out this melodramatic emigration song,…
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Music: From a Whisper to a Scream
“Sometimes it is a spiritual experience, but most of the time it’s not…You have to work very hard to get that. But that’s okay. There’s no free lunch, y’know?” – […]
Northern Roots Southern Branches
Will a re-examining of the Ulster Scots advance the idea of a “pluralist society” or lead to further separation? Southerners like to say they are not like other Americans, and […]
Music Roundup
Paul Brady Oh What A World Compass Records Let’s all ponder Paul Brady’s career for a moment. The man has written songs that have been recorded by the likes of […]
The Greatest Irish Rock Albums of the Last Millennium!!!
Gotcha. There was a craze afoot at the end of the last century — gosh, doesn’t that sound strange, especially since it was a mere couple of months ago — […]
Music: The Reel Thing
Modern Ireland can boast plenty of pop superstars whose recordings sell in the millions. But if U2, Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor and Enya are undeniably Irish musicians, is what they […]
Yeats Country and Beyond
“I am of Ireland,” wrote William Butler Yeats in one of his most famous poems from 1933, and all we have to do is look at the stark images from […]