A portrait of James Joyce taken in January 1941. It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what ...

This year started off so well for The Dubliners. In January they played, and recorded, two special concerts at Dublin’s Christchurch Cathedral attended by President Michael D Higgins and his wife ...

The Irish Rover was a majestic vessel sailing the Atlantic from New York City east to Cork, Ireland. Immortalized in an Irish folk song, the original ship had 23 masts, which gradually shifted in ...

The beloved Irish band The Dubliners has played their last-ever show before friends, family, and fans in Dublin. The band, who were formed in O’Donoghue’s pub on Merrion Row in Dublin’s city center 50 ...

Produced by Nathan Joseph; head of Transatlantic Records. There’s no denying the worldwide and lasting impact the Dubliners had on Irish folk music. Following on the tails of the success of The Clancy ...

American Pie singer Don McLean and veteran Irish band the Dubliners are to be honoured for their lifetime achievements at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Dubliners are celebrating their 50th ...

Jack Kennedy was in the White House, the Cold War hit freezing point, Elvis and Cliff dominated the charts and the Beatles failed an audition at Decca Records. Over in Paddy O’Donoghue’s bar in Dublin ...

Billy Connolly once called the Dubliners "folk music's Rolling Stones", but the rousing wild men of the Irish traditional scene sadly never reached their 50th anniversary in the same lucrative style.

With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the ...

Irish folk combo The Dubliners are now in the amazing 44th year of a career that has seen them release a top 20 single or album in the 60s, 80s and even the 00s, proving that they still seem to be as ...