Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

We'll leave the debates over why the Irish are such champions of the written word — Is it the island's strong oral traditions surrounding the seanchai, or storyteller? The rich vein of Celtic folklore ...

Check out some of our favourite Irish releases from the week below Walshy, It’s a wonderful life Dublin artist and producer Walshy shares his new Christmas single, It’s a wonderful life. Written from ...

Some songs don't have any more to them than a good beat you can dance to, and that's fine by me. Other songs have a good beat and layers of stories behind them. ROSE BETTS: I'm Rose Betts. I'm a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: When we first meet the character of Teddy Power (played by Ger Kelly) in the new Netflix series Bodkin, he’s seated at a local bar and his stoic silence is attributed to ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

The Cranberries, a rock band from Limerick, Ireland, achieved international success with their 1993 hit song "Dreams." Written by lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, "Dreams" was the band's first single ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Artists and genres on the docket range from Hozier (indie-rock) to The Pogues (Celtic-punk) to Ed Sheeran ...

Irish indie acts used to be ignored, even on Irish radio. But songs confronting the Troubles, poverty and oppression are now going global – and changing how Ireland sees itself On a hot Saturday ...

This month, we're highlighting some of our favorite stories from 2023, including this interview about a song with a beautiful history behind it. ROSE BETTS: I'm Rose Betts. I'm a singer-songwriter.