This year started off so well for The Dubliners. In January they played, and recorded, two special concerts at Dublin’s Christchurch Cathedral attended by President Michael D Higgins and his wife ...

The beloved Irish band The Dubliners has played their last-ever show before friends, family, and fans in Dublin. The band, who were formed in O’Donoghue’s pub on Merrion Row in Dublin’s city center 50 ...

When I was a child, I was afraid of Dubliners in general and of the band called The Dubliners in particular: bearded, smoking, wild men with a lead singer who sounded like a cement mixer to my young ...

Produced by Nathan Joseph; head of Transatlantic Records. There’s no denying the worldwide and lasting impact the Dubliners had on Irish folk music. Following on the tails of the success of The Clancy ...

More than just a party band with a "weird little sound", The Scratch's third album Pull Like A Dog is out now ...

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The sound of the rebirth of Irish cultural confidence in the 1960s, the raw and rowdy voice of Ronnie Drew - lead singer of The Dubliners, was silenced yesterday. His family reported the death of the ...

Billy Connolly once called the Dubliners "folk music's Rolling Stones", but the rousing wild men of the Irish traditional scene sadly never reached their 50th anniversary in the same lucrative style.

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Barney McKenna, banjo player with veteran folk group the Dubliners, has died at the age of 72. McKenna, known affectionately as Banjo Barney, was the last remaining member of the original line-up of ...