The best 50 Irish music acts right now – in order

It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest

Brian Deady: Yellow Creek review – True grit

An on-the-hoof recording in Memphis pays off for the forthright Irish songwriter

Brian Deady: ‘My job is not to be famous, it’s to make stuff’

The Cork native is continuing to plot world domination from his Spanish cave house

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New Year’s Eve events guide: Where to go and what to do

Outdoor concerts, silent discos and best of New Year’s Eve TV to help you ring in 2020

Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off

40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town

It Takes A Village to put on a festival in Trabolgan

How Music Works: Joe Kelly is organising a festival in Trabolgan holiday village in Co Cork in April, aimed at veteran festivalgoers who are fed up of mud, tents and portaloos

‘The Prodigy helped me put my family life back together’

This Album Changed My Life: Musician Brian Deady on The Prodigy’s Experience (1992)

Creative retreats, opera and TV holidays to soothe your soul

Check-In: the art behind violin production in Paris and Puccini with Marty Whelan

Al Porter launches himself into a thrilling New Year

Dublin comedian proves 2016 wasn’t bad for everyone, finishing year on a career high

Radio silence: Stations which play the least Irish music revealed

Gavin James and Walking on Cars top the most-played Irish lists on Irish radio stations

About 1,000 musicians to perform at Cork Jazz Festival

Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Bell X1 join acclaimed jazz perfomers on October line-up

Electric Picnic: main stage times plus Rankin's wood, Other Voices and Body & Soul

Here’s the first stage times for the Main, Rankin’s Wood, Other Voices and Body and Soul stages. We'll have more for you tomorrow

Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

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