What makes traditional Irish music so distinctive? Ireland is home to a rich musical heritage shaped by a collection of ...

A young Irish musician with cerebral palsy has learned to play the bodhran with the help of computer software that translates his eye movements into music. Cillian McSweeney, from Cork, has been ...

Flute and bodhrán player Kieran Munnelly sat down in an informal exchange between musicians with Bobby McFerrin. Thanks to Kathleen Biggins of WFUV's A Thousand Welcomes for posting this gem of good ...

There is a certain innocence about the Irish people. And as the philosophers believe, there is eloquence in innocence. The quaint hardiness of the Gaelic twang, the spontaneity of merry-making and the ...

Documentary On One: Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick, introduces Peadar Mercier, a documentary portrait of his ...

A bodhrán player with an Irish dancing troupe has been electrocuted in an accident in Siberia. Michael Kerrane (26), from Rathcairn, Co Meath, died while being photographed beside the Trans-Siberian ...

The Inis Oírr International Bodhrán Summer School is a metaphor for the recent economic history of Ireland. It started quietly on Monday (the school, not the economic history), with students being ...