Band members of the olllam derived the name from the Irish word “ollam” (or Old Irish “ollamh”), which refers to a master poet, learned person or professor. They added an extra “l” to represent the ...

Paddi Benson and Grace Lemon are two uilleann pipers who play and write music together in London. In their new Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric FM, The Dead Reeds, they explore the stories bound up in ...

A new stage production is preparing to take the harrowing story of one Co Down boy’s abuse and communicate it to audiences to show there is life after trauma. BOY: An Unforgettable Life in Words and ...

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One night this past spring, the audience members at a bagpipe concert in Red Hook, Brooklyn, could be organized into two neat categories: people who knew little to nothing about bagpipes—the ...

Flint, Michigan, has replaced most of its lead water pipes, more than 10 years after contaminated water was found in its water system, prompting national outrage. State officials submitted a progress ...

Voltage is a company well known for its otome games, but it’s really stepped things up with AmuLit’s Even if Tempestand The Red Bell’s Lament. While both titles are marked by some minor translation ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cait Fahy By the time Maria Somerville began work on Luster, her debut LP for 4AD, she’d ...

It was in Dublin where the unassuming producer began patiently developing her atmospheric signature sound on the 2019 debut LP All My People – with its gusty ambient electronics and sparse guitar, ...

A public appeal to find uilleann pipes that were stolen from a musician’s car while her brother was dying in University Hospital Limerick has been successful. Siobhan Hogan, a piper from Corofin, Co ...

A public appeal has been launched after uilleann pipes were stolen from a musician’s car while she was on her way to her brother’s funeral. Siobhan Hogan, a piper from Corofin, Co Clare, living in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Uilleann pipes performer, composer and percussionist Dr Matthew Horsley performs an arrangement of ...