A portrait of James Joyce taken in January 1941. It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what ...
In the song the singer has progressed from finding in his house a strange donkey, coat, boots and finally a strange head in his bed. To each his wife has provided a totally implausible answer. Clearly ...
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With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the ...
Were it not for the pusillanimity of publishers and printers, we might have celebrated the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 2006 or 2009. But Joyce's refusal to cut or edit ...
American Pie singer Don McLean and veteran Irish band the Dubliners are to be honoured for their lifetime achievements at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Dubliners are celebrating their 50th ...
Celtic rock band Young Dubliners’ young beginnings were as a bar band. Literally. In their early days in the mid-1990s, they were the house band for the bar that frontman and guitar player Keith ...