A young Irish musician with cerebral palsy has learned to play the bodhran with the help of computer software that translates his eye movements into music. Cillian McSweeney, from Cork, has been ...

Documentary On One: Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick, introduces Peadar Mercier, a documentary portrait of his ...

A bodhrán player with an Irish dancing troupe has been electrocuted in an accident in Siberia. Michael Kerrane (26), from Rathcairn, Co Meath, died while being photographed beside the Trans-Siberian ...

There is a certain innocence about the Irish people. And as the philosophers believe, there is eloquence in innocence. The quaint hardiness of the Gaelic twang, the spontaneity of merry-making and the ...

“The moment somebody is born, their life starts with a basic rhythm of 72 BPM [beats per minute]. That’s the heartbeat. You walk, there’s a rhythm. You run, there’s a rhythm. You dance, there’s a ...