Iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen gave a haunting rendition of the Irish rebel classic "Kevin Barry" during a concert in 1972. Cohen introduced the song by speaking of the horrors of war ...

St. Patrick's Day is on Monday, March 17. Whatever your annual tradition is, whether it's attending a parade or dining on corned beef and cabbage, make sure to wear green in support of the Emerald ...

"Irish Rebel Songs of the Six Counties recorded in Belfast by The Men of No Property." Program notes including the text of a speech by Bernadette Devlin and words of the songs (15 p. : ill.) inserted ...

An armoured car built in Coventry in the 1960s was so ubiquitous in Northern Ireland, it was explicitly named in two controversial Irish rebel songs. The Alvis Saracen was produced in Coventry at the ...

Taking their name from a Gaelic expression meaning “kiss my ass,” the Pogues grew out of a one-off gig singer Shane MacGowan and friends played as the New Republicans in 1981. When MacGowan and that ...

Something very strange is happening in Ireland with its young folk. They have begun taking to Irish rebel music in a way unseen in a very long time. It is an extraordinary development as what once was ...

Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, 74, the last of the Clancy Brothers group, whose spirited songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Dec. 5 in a hospital in Cork, Ireland. He had ...