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Great blog posts on Irish Music Daily

Loud earphones damaging children’s ears
Chasing the American Dream
Royal Opera House goes Gaelic
Irish singer Bob Geldof leads Live8
Music At the Heart of Ireland’s Renewal
Tara O’Grady’s magical fusion of jazz and folk
Ireland’s new Musical World Champions
Supporting Magdalene survivors
Magdalene charity video

Christmas bonus for MacGowan from Fairytale
Martin Hayes concert
Michael William Balfe – Ireland’s Mozart
‘Minstrel Boy’ writer Thomas Moore
Tara O’Grady – Irish music fused with jazz
Moonrakers – Celtic music that ‘oozes quality’
Gaelic Harmony
Calling musicians from Ireland’s 32 counties
Singer Oonagh Cassidy joins our video showcase

Check out our profiles of these great Irish singers

Chloe Agnew
Wallis Bird
Mary Black
Luka Bloom
Paul Brady
Moya Brennan
Neil Byrne
Paul Byrom

Emmet Cahill
Fil Campbell
Liam Clancy
Cara Dillon
George Donaldson
Ronnie Drew
Enya
Tara Erraught

Órla Fallon
Keith Harkin
Cathy Jordon
Dolores Keane
Colm Keegan
Luke Kelly
Ryan Kelly
Michael Londra

Tommy Makem
Jim McCann
Eleanor McEvoy
Damian McGinty
Christy Moore
Mundy
Sinead O’Connor
Rebecca Winckworth

Popular Irish folk songs on Irish Music Daily

A Nation Once Again
Arthur McBride
Black Velvet Band
Boolavogue
Bunch of Thyme
Carrickfergus
Danny Boy
Dirty Old Town
Down by the Salley Gardens
Fairytale of New York
The Ferryman

Fields of Athenry
Finnegan’s Wake
Galway Bay
I’ll Tell Me Ma
Irish Rover
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya
Kevin Barry
Mrs McGrath
Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Raglan Road
Rare Old Mountain Dew

Rocky Road to Dublin
Seven Drunken Nights
Song For Ireland
The Water is Wide
Wearing of the Green
When You Were Sweet 16
Whiskey in the Jar
Wild Colonial Boy
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Rover
Wind That Shakes the Barley

Check out our articles on some great bands

Celtic Tenors
Celtic Thunder
Celtic Woman
The Chieftains
The Clancy Brothers
Clannad

The Corrs
The Cranberries
De Dannan
Dropkick Murphys
Dublin City Ramblers
The Dubliners

Flogging Molly
The Fureys
Gaelic Storm
The High Kings
Horslips
The Irish Rovers

The Irish Tenors
Planxty
The Pogues
The Saw Doctors
The Waterboys
The Wolfe Tones

Elsewhere on Irish Music Daily

Bob Dylan tops the bill at Irish music festival
Singer Christy Moore backs forest campaign
Fields of Athenry – Irish song and football anthem
Dropkick Murphys evoke wild Irish wake
Ronan Keating to release Bacharach songs
Dubliners take a breather ahead of next tour
Dropkick Murphys back workers
BBC documentary on Irish rock band Thin Lizzy

Frankie Gavin Up Close and Personal
Irish songwriter sets Mandela speech to music
Gary Moore – An Irish music legend
Classic Irish fiddle music straight from the kitchen
What The Dubliners really drank back stage…
How Raglan Road came to be written
The death of Gerry Rafferty
Oh no…Hitler was a fan of Irish music