Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinking

The fiddle player on becoming a ‘vegetarian, eastern-thinking, long-haired something’

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

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

Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus is like the Taliban – it hates art

Covid-19 has destroyed live performance, we must support artists in reinventing it

In Australia I’m regarded as Irish, but in Ireland I’m ‘not from here’

The older I get the more I realise that, wherever I am, west Clare will always be in me

Political chest-beaters steal show in white collar crime matinee

Caveat: Apathy (almost) all-consuming as Oireachtas committee considers the ODCE

The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London

Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

An Irishman’s Diary about Noel Hill’s Connemara nightmare

The best music festivals and outdoor gigs in Ireland in 2018

From It Takes a Village in April, to Electric Picnic in September, via The Rolling Stones

Flawless master of uilleann pipes who left priceless legacy

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

Liam O’Flynn left ‘a perfect legacy for generations of musicians’

The Kildare-born musician began on the uilleann pipes under the great Leo Rowsome

Pitch Battles – An Irishman’s Diary about an ancient tune given new life, via a marriage between uilleann pipes and orchestra

Piper’s lament – An Irishman’s Diary about Johnny Doran and the fall and rise of uilleann piping

Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation

In the run-up to St Patrick's Day, Irish Times writers select the acts that represent modern Irishness