The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

No doubt you will have some remarks on Irish folk music, of which the Irish Suite is an orchestral setting. There is one troublesome point, namely in The Girl I Left Behind Me. According to the ...

felt a need to carry on the musician's commitment to the music and so established a summer school devoted to the uilleann pipes and other instruments integral to the playing of traditional Irish ...

Mike Connolly's film is an interpretative guide to Irish folk music and its evolving place in Irish culture and the world. Watch some fantastic additional songs performed by featured artists ...