When Pauline Scanlon was “10 or 11”, she noticed a change in her mother, Eileen. “There was a darkness,” the traditional singer recalls in the beautifully raw and mournful documentary Amhráin do mo ...

Kerry Irish Productions will present ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN IRELAND, a touring production celebrating Irish music, song, and dance, with performances across California in March 2026. The program ...

Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton has branded the lyrics of a popular anti-Catholic anthem a ‘hate crime’. The sectarian ‘No Pope of Rome’ party tune was recorded being played by bands and sung ...

Country music has long been billed as three chords and the truth. And while those three chords have evolved over the years, the “truth” often gets told using many of the same familiar words. Most of ...

Kingfishr’s hit track Killeagh is the biggest song in a single year this decade by any artist, new figures from the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) have shown. Data released today revealed ...

A respected French novelist who spent her childhood in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania holds a solitary vigil in the Annex of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. From eight in the evening until seven the ...

Some songs don't stay limited to the movies they appear in. FA9LA, which is an Arabic hip-hop track used in Dhurandhar, is one such track. Much like Animal's Jamal Kudu, FA9LA has taken on a life of ...

Taylor Swift surprised fans with revised lyrics to two songs on her 2017 album, Reputation, via Apple Music. Eagle-eyed fans took to social media early Friday, December 12, to point out lyric changes ...

Check out some of our favourite new Irish songs to hear this week Fred again.. has released his new remix of Dundalk rapper Reggie’s track ‘Talk of the Town’, featuring English DJ Sammy Virji. The ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

Among images in popular music, one of the most haunting figures is that of a car crash. Ironically, crashing into something has turned for many musicians into a metaphor for life’s misery, threatening ...