When Gerry Carthy crashed his car on St. Michael’s Drive 40 years ago partway through a cross-country road trip, Santa Fe didn’t have much of an Irish music scene. In a way, Carthy — a tenor banjo ...

“Banjo” Barney McKenna died at his home in Howth, Dublin, on Thursday morning while enjoying a cup of tea with an old friend. He was the last surviving member of the much loved Dubliners Irish folk ...

When Enda Scahill and Fergal Scahill and Martin Howley and David Howley, two sets of brothers from Galway, Ireland, first heard the music of Johnny Cash and other influential classic American ...