One what would have been the 68th birtnday of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, we remember the outstanding legacy of this ...

When music editor Chris Farnsworth interviewed and wrote about his coworkers’ band, he found himself in an uncomfortable, and conflicted, position.

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Twenty-five years on, Ireland is still living with the consequences of mistaking rapid growth for lasting economic success ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ...

Be it animated adventures, a ghost story, comedy or music, there’s plenty to see on the festive entertainment roster ...

It is the mid-1980s in south-west London and the small, slight man with glasses nicknamed “weirdo” by his Chelsea team-mates ...

Christmas has always made me nostalgic, but I have come to realize, with something of a jolt— perhaps because I just turned ...

Irish pubs are full of such stories — all of them testament to the central role the public house has played in the social and ...

We gathered in the dust at dawn, 3000 mostly inebriated partygoers, some musicians, media crews, a photographer and me. It ...