A symposium/award scheme for artists who speak Irish, or who would like to use it in their arts practice, takes place next week

Where is the Woodie Guthrie of today, contemplates Breandán Ó hEaghra, as Genghis Khan joins the singer on a Conamara trampoline. And is that Angela Merkel on the banjo and Nicolas Sarkozy clapping along?

In the Irish-speaking areas of Ireland, visitors are sometimes frustrated because they speak Irish to locals and are responded to in English.

Patrick Pearse’s classic short story about a sean-nós singer who walks to Dublin could never happen today – or could it? by Breandán Ó hEaghra

The melody of ‘Danny Boy’ has its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century in the North of Ireland. An old harper’s melody was collected and embellished to make the air that we know today, but by who?

Breandán ó hEaghra decodes the LP

Breandán Ó hEaghra tells how he discovers new sounds

Breandán Ó hEaghra hears the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland in New York

He was a cantankerous eccentric who stressed that the Irish language and music were inseparable. Richard Henebry should not be forgotten, writes Ciaran Carson

Jumping, headbanging, the slow set – dancing today has thinned out incredibly. Can we broaden it out again?

Classical/Early   CD Review Andrew McGregor Sat, 9:00am www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview/Classical Collection Sarah Walker Mon–Fri, 10:00am www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classicalcollection Composer of the Week Donal...

Classical/Early   CD Review Andrew McGregor Sat, 9:00am www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview/Classical Collection Sarah Walker Mon–Fri, 10:00am www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classicalcollection Composer of the Week Donal...

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Stravinsky, emigré A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California (Yale University Press) by Dorothy Lamb Crawford examines the gathering of sixteen performers, fourteen composers (including Stravinsky...

Who knew there was an Irish didgeridoo? Breandán Ó hEaghra finds out at the Galway Early Music Festival

Why is it so difficult to experience the musical culture of the west of Ireland?

How country music in America binds Ireland North and South

The corporate cruelty of the new talent shows

Is Irish-language song in a western pop music ghetto? It needs a much broader musical context, writes Breandán Ó hEaghra

Breandán Ó hEaghra looks at comedian Des Bishop’s achievement with his rap in Irish, ‘Léimigí Thart’

Breandán Ó hEaghra, with the help of mudcat.org, gets behind the meaning of the famous song ‘The Rocks of Bawn’.

Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin 211 March 2008The immediate impression as you entered Bewley’s Theatre for singer Seán Ó hÉanaigh’s performance was one of relaxed conviviality. People at different tables visited...

Breandán Ó hEaghra on what our national anthems say about us

The idea of a separate radio station in Irish for young people is back on the horizon, with a seminar on the subject organised as part of the Oireachtas.

Project '06: an alternative to the Galway Arts Festival.

Micheál Ó Conghaile agus Cló Iar-Chonnachta.

Is the idea of Irish culture we promote abroad ‘bogus’?

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin’s new CD Áilleacht and the enabling power of tradition.

Go stairiúil, ní mórán de cheangal atá idir an Ghaeilge ná an Ghaeltacht agus ceol clasaiceach de bharr deighilt aicme agus tíreolaíochta. Iontas na n-iontas mar sin go bhfuil ceoltóir/cumadóir...

A chara,Maidir leis an gcasaoid faoi nósanna nua san sean-nós atá feicthe i mbileoga JMI agus cloiste ar RnaG, feicim gur mó aontas ná deigilt atá idir na páirtithe. Tá meas araon acu ar amhránaíocht...

From 2nd May Raidió na Gaeltachta will be permitted to play songs with English lyrics between 9pm and 1am. What will this mean for the type of music being played?

Tarraingíodh raic agus rúcam ar Raidió na Gaeltachta le gairid i ngeall ar alt a scríobh mé san eagrán deireanach den JMI ag rá go raibh ‘nósanna nua de dhíth ar an sean-nós’....

Bhíodh Eamon Dunphy ag tabairt amach faoi ghné de shaol na hÉireann ar ar thug sé ‘official Ireland’. Séard a bhí i gceist aige leis an téarma seo ná na daoine a cheap iad féin mar...

Dá n-úsáidfí amhráin nuachumtha chun sláinte teanga a thomhais, is fadó gur chóir an Ghaeilge a bheith clúdaithe ó chois go ceann i mbindealáin agus líonta go cluas le drugaí....

A review of Ar Chreag i Lár na Farraige: Amhráin agus Amhránaithe i dToraigh, a new book by Lillis Ó Laoire on the song, music and dance of the Gaeltacht community of Tory Island.