Though Irish folk music has never disappeared, it has ebbed and flowed in the wider consciousness. The last major revival of popularity was in the 1980s, ...

Irish folk music's role in rooting commercial mainstream country music to its past, including those of the settlers of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 400 years ago, ...

Irish folk band The Dubliners were hugely popular for over 50 years. The band endured many line-up changes. but the group's success was centered on lead singers Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew.

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs.Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

A Ryanair flight resembled a folk concert at 30,000 feet after an Irish musician whipped out his fiddle and started playing to the delight of fellow passengers as seen in a viral video.

Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74.

Paddy Moloney, a co-founder of the Irish folk band The Chieftains, died today. He was 83 years old. The news was announced by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. No cause of death was given ...