Some time in the late 1990s, I read Dubliners by James Joyce. I recall enjoying his collection of short stories and was struck by how readable they were. That was as far as my relationship with Joyce ...
Barney McKenna, right, and Ronnie Drew: founding members of the Dubliners With only a few weeks to go until St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve been thinking - you’re gonna be hearing a lot of Irish tunes around ...
The Irish Rover was a majestic vessel sailing the Atlantic from New York City east to Cork, Ireland. Immortalized in an Irish folk song, the original ship had 23 masts, which gradually shifted in ...
When I was a child, I was afraid of Dubliners in general and of the band called The Dubliners in particular: bearded, smoking, wild men with a lead singer who sounded like a cement mixer to my young ...
From rousing pub anthems to tender ballads, these are the songs that best show why Kelly remains such a towering figure in Irish music. The Dubliners’ early recordings helped establish that legacy and ...