Claddagh Records

Could Michael D topple Christy from the top of the album charts?

President Michael D Higgins records an LP; the Oireachtas spends more taxpayers’ cash on something it’s not clear we need; and an ex-rugby star encounters some unwanted wingers

Lemoncello: Lemoncello review – Subversive and silky sticks of sonic dynamite

Long-delayed debut album shows strong traces of their influences but has collective force of personality to counteract them

Niamh Bury: ‘I was really shy as a kid. But performing always came easily to me’

Niamh Bury is about to release her debut album, but her talent is fully formed, thanks to years of community folk singing and inspiration offered by artists from Mary Black to Planxty

Radie Peat of Øxn: ‘I love murder ballads. I’m not mad about the fact it’s always men murdering women’

The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and Percolator

‘Chaos, conflict and creativity’: The extraordinary life of Garech Browne

The Claddagh Records founder is celebrated in a new book that comes with remastered versions of some of the label’s finest recordings

Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney and the reinvention of Claddagh Records

The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records

The Irish Times view on Paddy Moloney and Tony MacMahon: giants of the tradition

These distinctive figures left an indelible mark on generations of musicians and listeners

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Paddy Moloney: President Higgins leads tributes to Chieftains founder

The musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83

Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland

Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive

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

Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal

Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada

Miriam Lord: Seanad candidates get their campaigns in full swing

Ruth Coppinger goes on the attack while Justin Warfield warbles some old tunes

Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle

Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in a forthcoming Sotheby’s sale. Jane Bolton who helped Browne set up Claddagh Records is still running the Temple Bar shop today

Garech Browne: Last Days at Luggala – ‘We’re skirting around the fact he was an alcoholic’

TV review: Mick Mahon’s jam-packed film is a portrait of an eccentric, lonely man