Centenary of turning point in Irish history to be marked

1922 World Congress of the Irish Race announced the Free State to the world

Awards shows and boutique festivals: This week’s traditional music highlights

Gradam Ceoil winners will take to the stage in Belfast for the second year in a row

No plans for the bank holiday and Halloween? You need to read this

From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Liz Carroll- Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840: a meeting of past and present

Making fit kids: Back at the school desks, and back in action

What can be done to help youngsters get at least an hour’s exercise every day?

Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music

Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves

We Banjo 3: Live In Galway | Album Review

Various Artists: The Burren Backroom Series Volume 1 | Album Review

Anna Falkenau: Féileacán na Saoirse

Liz Carroll: On the Off Beat

Sligo sessions: Irish music with an American accent

This weekend’s Sligo Live features Irish-American musicians such as Liz Carroll and local stars such as Seamus McGuire – and even the instruments have tales to tell

Culture Shock: No ‘Danny Boy’, no rebel songs, just great Irish music

Mick Moloney’s brilliant Green Fields of America has been a staging post, proving ground and launch pad for almost everything that has happened in Irish-American traditional music since the 1970s

Niamh Ní Charra: Cuz