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Irish American Malachy McCourt has died at the age of 92, his family confirmed on March 11.

Having toured alongside Frank Turner for over a decade, the Oxford band stepped into their own

Photo: Lukas Rauch Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan would be the first to admit that some of their most iconic work wouldn’t be anything resembling that without the support of their respective backing bands. Likewise, folk-punk troubadour Frank Turner couldn’t have crafted some ...

A County Donegal man who died in Paris, France in May this year will be buried in his native Buncrana on Christmas Eve.

“From the moment she burst onto the music scene in the mid ’80s, Sinéad O’Connor did things differently. In an Ireland ensnared by its past, Sinéad...

Sinéad O'Connor was many things, and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ people was chief among them.

Sinead O'Connor's LGBTQ+ activism stretches to the very beginning of her career, long before it was acceptable to do so. And though she was attacked constantly for her support or trans and LGBTQ+ issues, she never stopped fighting.

In Ireland, Ms. O’Connor spoke out about abuse and the complicity of religious institutions. When she came to the United States, many were not ready to hear her — yet.

Americans began to grapple with a nationwide epidemic of child abuse in Catholic parishes and other religious organizations in 2002, after a landmark Boston Globe investigation revealed a pattern of misdeeds and cover-ups in Boston that went back decades. Ten years earlier, Sinead O’Connor became a pop culture pariah in the United States for an on-air protest intended to raise awareness of the same problem. The backlash to her actions — tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on ...

Americans began to grapple with a nationwide epidemic of child abuse in Catholic parishes and other religious organizations in 2002, after a landmark Boston Globe investigation revealed a pattern of misdeeds and cover-ups in Boston that went back decades. Ten years earlier, Sinead O’Connor became a pop culture pariah in the United States for an on-air protest intended to raise awareness of the same problem. The backlash to her actions — tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on ...