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Louisa Harland quickly discovered that caution should be used when trying to obtain something that is desperately wanted. That reality became clear for her when she was cast to play Nell Jackson in the new Disney+ series “Renegade Nell.” Nell is a quick-witted and courageous young woman who finds herself framed for murder. This leads her […]

Double Blind is the debut feature from director Ian Hunt-Duffy and writer Darach McGarrigle and is in Irish cinemas right now.

“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he added. Each new generation adds to that tradition by adding songs of their own.

His best songs made you cry and raise a clenched fist at the same time. Yet the man I knew was also a gentle, poetic soul, says Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie

The singer brought a sound and instrumentation that borrowed heavily from Irish traditional music, but played with a thoroughly modern punk-rock fury. It was a genre that really didn’t exist until MacGowan landed there, writes Jim Sullivan.

Shane MacGowan, the boozy, rabble-rousing singer and chief songwriter of The Pogues, who infused traditional Irish music with the energy and spirit of punk, has died. He was 65. His

Shane Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues, best known for their ballad “Fairytale of New York,” died, his family said. He was 65.

Victoria took X, formerly known as Twitter, to post a tender snap of herself sharing a kiss with the musician, adding that she was going to miss every little part of him.

LONDON (AP) — Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of

The Pogues in the early 1980s felt to thousands of second-generation Irish like the answer to an unspoken prayer