How to cope when work dries up: Lessons from a casual worker

Here’s what I’ve learned about keeping your head when your earnings drop – or vanish

Photographer of choice for musicians and movie stars, Terry O’Neill, dies at 81

O’Neill could put famous people at ease and became friends with many of those he photographed

Rolling Thunder Revue: Scorsese’s mesmerising Bob Dylan motion picture

Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Allen Ginsberg feature in this epic chronicle’s new chapter

The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London

Margaret Barry shared a billing at the 1965 Newport Festival with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

‘The music teacher said to me: you haven’t a musical note in your body’

With six albums under his belt, a new record and a book on the way, Derry native Tony Wright is flourishing creatively like never before

Sigrid, Paloma Faith, Bell X1, Joan Baez: this week’s rock and pop highlights

Sigrid, The Stunning, Kormac, Daithi, Bell XI, Paloma Faith and Joan Baez head the pop parade

Stop children, what’s that sound?: Trump-wave protest music

A new generation of American songwriters answer the call for musical dissidence

Various: Milk of the Tree - an Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 album review

Tupac and Joan Baez enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Pearl Jam and Yes are also given the prestigious honour at a ceremony in New York

Swing Low Sweet Chariot: The slave song appropriated by English rugby

It’s unlikely those who’ll sing it at Aviva are aware of its cultural and spiritual significance

Folk hero: Richard Fariña’s wild ride from Tyrone to Greenwich

The late writer and musician made a big impression in the 1960s, whether playing with Bob Dylan or fishing in Ireland. Just beware of his tall tales of Castro and the IRA

From Strange Fruit to Irish polemics: the power of the protest song

From Billie Holiday to The Clash and on to modern Irish artists Zrazy and Jinx Lennon, activism has a long and illustrious history

Garth Brooks, we nearly didn’t miss you

Country music comes to sunburnt Dublin with Stetson and City music trail

David Gray: Mutineers