Most won't leave the town of Lisdoonvarna with a partner. But for a few nights each fall, they find something rarer — company ...

When you talk about the banjo in Irish music, one name always comes up first. Barney McKenna, otherwise known as “Banjo Barney”, the late Dubliners ­legend whose playing transformed the instrument ...

A festival said to have a “special place in the hearts and minds” of Irish traditional music lovers is returning next month.