Cormac Begley: B – The musical gift that keeps on giving

This swooping, soaring album showcases his bass and baritone concertina skills

Cormac Begley: ‘You want to stand over your work and know it had integrity’

Concertina player on his new album ‘B’, west Kerry and different types of breath

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh reinvents Ireland’s biggest songs

The Kerry singer’s new record melds traditional songs and orchestral arrangements

Two seminal collections of Irish traditional music brought back to life

Archive releases Famine-era melodies plus mid-century recordings by Alan Lomax

Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney and the reinvention of Claddagh Records

The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records

Irish Recording Company: Few know of these top-quality 1940s gems

An Irishman’s Diary: Story of the first trad record label under Bill Stapleton

Kavanagh death mask and miniature Ming bowl to headline upcoming sales

Poet Patrick Kavanagh's death mask and portrait of campaigner Vicky Phelan are among auction highlights

King of the Pipers – An Irishman’s Diary on Leo Rowsome

Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal

Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada

Clare set: Frank McNally on two new books with a common thread

Irishman's Diary: Musicians bumped into each other on my desk via respective books

Mick Hanly and Dónal Lunny and a concertina convention: The best trad gigs this week

Stockton’s Wing’s ‘A Retrospective’ tour is also among this week’s highlights

Flawless master of uilleann pipes who left priceless legacy

Liam O’Flynn obituary: born – September 15th, 1945; died – March 14th, 2018

Master and patron: traditional music loses two pivotal figures

Liam O’Flynn and Garech de Brún enriched and strengthened our musical tradition

Liam O’Flynn remembered as a ‘magical’ musician

Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told