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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,…
Black ’47
Rabble-Rousers with a Social Conscience “Free Joe Now,” the song by Black 47, the Irish…
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We’re Here and We’re Irish
There is a creative wave happening in Ireland that is stretching all the way across the Atlantic and washing up on the shores of America. Patsy Murphy examines this phenomenon. […]
Mozart’s Irish Tenor
Isabelle Emerson writes on the fascinating life of Irish tenor Michael Kelly. Michael Kelly’s career started early: at the age of three he was served up on the table with […]
Music Review: Nashville Finds Its Irish Roots
The Chieftains are the most Irish of all commercial bands and, therefore, the most universal in spirit. They embody their musical heritage with such fierce allegiance to its true origins […]
Women in Irish Traditional Music
In a small, dimly lit pub in a West Clare village, a group of attentive listeners gather around an elderly woman seated in a corner. The year is 1958 and […]
Music Q&A: A Wake Up Call
The Cranberries performed to a small audience at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan on August 22 to promote their new CD Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Less than […]