Some instruments seem destined for Bangkok. Saxophones in neon bars. Guitars on makeshift stages. Even an occasional sitar wafting through an incense-lit cafe. But a five-string banjo? Not exactly.

After sixteen unforgettable Comhaltas concerts hosted by the Frank Gavigan Branch in Milltown Rathconrath, each one building on the last, it’s remarkable how the standard continues to rise.

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 ...

Two years ago today, the country music world lost a legend when this innovative and versatile banjo player died at 85.

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They ...

Sale prices for Irish homes continued their upward trajectory in the first six months of the year, with an overall increase of 5.05 per cent in the period, a half percentage point ahead of the 4.55 ...

The Swedish-based but Chinese-owned Polestar brand is to expand its model lineup in Ireland next year with the arrival of a four-door GT model: the Polestar 5. It comes as the company introduces ...

Anti-Irish Catholic sentiment was an ongoing problem across the United States — from the 19th century all the way through to the early 20th century. While not on such a grand scale, Butte’s Irish ...

Curragh chief executive Brian Kavanagh was heartened by the number of international racegoers on day two of the Irish Champions Festival and is hoping the success of British trainers over the weekend ...

A campaign group has secured a date for their third High Court challenge against the Stormont administration’s ongoing failure to deliver an Irish language strategy. Conradh na Gaeilge is seeking to ...

The DUP-run Department of Communities has been accused of marginalising minority languages after dropping a trilingual logo from its branded letter heads on most official correspondence. Fresh ...