ireland
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There is something wonderfully insolent about BITSEACH. Áine Tyrrell takes a word intended to put women back in their place and builds a song around the women who refused to stay there. That distinction is important. This isn’t another vaguely empowering song about being strong. Tyrrell is interested in something far less comfortable: what happens…
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Filmed across Ravensdale and the coastline surrounding Balbriggan Lighthouse and beach, the video places Sonaírí’s classical interpretation of one of Coldplay’s best-known songs against some striking Irish landscapes. The film opens in woodland, with the pair dressed in white. There is something almost theatrical about those first scenes, a touch of Phantom of the Opera…
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The acclaimed Irish songwriter gives one of her most cherished songs a new visual life ahead of her appearance in RTÉ One’s Trinity’s Treasures The music industry is perpetually hunting for the next thing, sometimes so frantically that it forgets a great song does not expire simply because release week has passed. Eleanor McEvoy understands…
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The Belfast musician and visual artist discusses growing up during the Troubles, the radical power of empathy and the city of warmth, wit and creativity at the heart of his new single, ‘Belfast (Place of My Soul)’. For Paul Archer, Belfast is more than a birthplace. It is a creative force, a spiritual anchor and…
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For centuries, the sound of Ireland’s original brass-wire-strung harp was lost to history. This July, audiences in Kilkenny will have a rare opportunity to hear the instrument that shaped Ireland’s musical identity and inspired the national emblem brought back to life by pioneering musicians and researchers. When most people think of the Irish harp, they…
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In recent years, few cultural initiatives have reshaped Ireland’s conversation around identity and belonging as clearly as Black and Irish. What began as three simple words shared online quickly grew into something much larger. At a time when conversations about race and representation were intensifying across the world, the phrase captured an experience many people…
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Our Rating 10/10 Let’s talk about Euro Country properly. First things first. This is not cosplay country. This is not Nashville dress up with a TikTok filter. This is Irish melodrama in cowboy boots and it absolutely knows what it is doing. Euro Country feels like someone fed classic country music through an Irish wedding…
