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The life story of 1916 Easter Rising Leader James Connolly, who was executed on May 12, 1916 at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.

Tributes to music legend Bob Dylan in honour of his 80th birthday US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Picture by AP Photo/David Vincent Irish folk singer and songwriter Tommy Sands. Picture by Declan Roughan PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins led tributes to Bob Dylan today as the music legend marked his 80th birthday. In a letter the president praised Dylan's musical and political achievements and began by writing "as one 80-year-old to another". It comes as events were held across the world to mark the singer's birthday, with memories of his extraordinary career spanning six decade...

Comments Legendary musician Bob Dylan turns 80 today, May 24. Celebrate his landmark birthday by exploring the massive influence that Irish folk legends The Clancy Brothers had on the icon's esteemed career.  Dylan first crossed paths with the iconic Irish band in 1961 while they were performing at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, New York City. The Clancy Brothers were already well-established in New York by the time Dylan laid eyes on them, and the young singer was captivated by the emotional rebel songs that the band performed.  Read more He was particularly enrap...

This classification of Dylan as a political troubadour is borne out as recently as last year’s Murder Most Foul, his rumination on the Kennedy assassination and what he sees as its ripple effect on America up to the present day. This epic narrative may be driven by Dylan’s apocalyptic account of the JFK killing but the state of the nation almost 60 years later in the Trump era is its bubbling subtext. America, its history and sprawling geography, has been central to Dylan as poet and songmaker. In a sense he came full circle with Murder Most Foul. He had already addressed Americaâ�...

As Liam Clancy remembers it, being asked to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show did not seem like a big deal. “We just did not understand the significance,” he told Irish America in a recent interview, during a publicity tour to promote a brilliant rerelease of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performing live at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 1963. Two years before that historic performance, as Clancy recalls, they were a group of slightly shady characters best known in that bohemian redoubt, Greenwich Village. “Irish-Americans weren’t really interested in us,” said Liam, the you...