Masters of traditional Irish music, The Chieftains blended ancient Celtic sounds with global collaborations to become cultural ambassadors of Ireland. Known as the Bard of Armagh, Tommy Makem was a ...

Listen to The Foggy Dew, especially performed for Ireland's Favourite Folk Song by Daoirí Farrell, above, and read all about the song below... The Foggy Dew is a rousing ballad written in praise of ...

“The Foggy Dew”, one of the best-known ballads commemorating the Easter Rising, was written in 1919. You may not know that the author was a young priest from County Antrim. Charles O'Neill was born ...

Through a city fair rode I. There armed lines of marching men, In squadrons did pass me by. No pipe did hum, no battle drum, Did sound out its loud tattoo. But the angelus bell o’er the Liffey’s swell ...