Máirtín O’Connor: ‘The Earth still turns and we’re treating it so badly’

Energetic musician on being commissioned to write The Mighty Ocean on climate change

The best traditional gigs between February 23rd and 29th

Get tickets for Dónal Lunny, TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards, Ímar and Kern

Moving Hearts get back on the beat: The best trad gigs this week

The return of Traidphicnic and Andy Irvine’s trip to Cobh are among the other highlights

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

More power to your elbow – An Irishman’s Diary about uilleann pipes

Christy Moore shines brightly in his natural habitat – the stage

The best of traditional music: 2016 TG4 Gradam Ceoil award winners announced

This year’s recipients cast a light into traditional music’s beating heart

Alma mater to honour centenarian music trailblazer

Anne Byrne made her first recordings in 1954 using a tape recorder she had bought in New York

NUI Galway’s oldest graduate 101 . . . and still not out

Anne Gannon left university during Europe’s darkest hour, as tide of fascism was rising

Miriam Lord: Penrose plans to lead Enda on a merry dance

Labour TD talks of ‘impromptu concert’ to launch Bill on Irish music quotas

Mary McPartlan: ‘The pain and sorrows of emigration are so rooted in our songs’

McPartlan has mined the common ground between the music of Appalachia and Leitrim

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Gradam Ceoil showcases the eclectic best of Irish traditional music

From the genius of Máirtín O’Connor and the huge contribution of the Irish Traditional Music Archive to the magpie stylings of Ensemble Ériú, the list of recipients of the annual TG4 awards is impressively diverse

Another step on Galway’s stairway to heaven

An Irishwoman’s Diary about literary voices old and new