Irish rebel songs afford Scotland's Irish diaspora a means to assert, experience and perform their alterity free from the complexities of the Irish language. Yet this benign intent can be offset by ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Irish rebel song has topped the iTunes charts in the UK and Ireland following a row over a planned commemoration of the former Irish police force. The Irish Government deferred the event in memory ...

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 ...

An armoured car built in Coventry in the 1960s was so ubiquitous in Northern Ireland, it was explicitly named in two ...