The best jazz concerts to go to in Ireland this week

Music with pizza in the Liberties, a festival in the Donegal Gaeltacht

Sounds Like Freedom: When music and civil rights join forces

Niall Vallely’s new project celebrates historic protests in both the US and Northern Ireland

National Concert Hall launches bumper programme for 2019-20

Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up

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

Karan Casey: Hieroglyphs that Tell the Tale review – A great leap forward

Former envoys call for recognition of Palestinian state

Letter to Taoiseach signed by academics and artists urges Government to act ‘without delay’

Music is a universal language – with some border checks

Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally

Notify - InConcept review: an intriguing musical crossroad

Civil rights radical who moved to Sinn Féin

Niall Vallely: August 13th, 1942 - December 14th, 2014

Karan Casey: Two More Hours

The voice of experience: sean nós made new for Iarla Ó Lionáird

An eclectic range of composers have collaborated with the traditional singer with the ‘severe’ voice