irish music dublin

The Furey Brothers & Davey Arthur are one of the most respected and best loved Irish traditional institutions in the country.

Steeped in music since they were toddlers, The Fureys grew up in Ballyfermot on Dublin's southside as part of the first generation of Irish travelling people to live in fixed homes. Indeed, their traveller roots are very important to the four brothers, Finbar, George, Eddie and Paul and provide them with a deep well of songs, stories and tunes.
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This was something of an unprecedented sight and sound in the Dublin of the time, but then The Boomtown Rats were the first local band to confront an Irish audience with that authentic punky spirit. Over the next four or five years they grew into a tough Rhythm & Blues outfit with an exquisite pop sensibility that produced a string of classic hit singles including "Rat Trap", "I Don't Like Mondays" and "Banana Republic". Bewleys in Grafton Street was a regular meeting place for the Band and th...

In a musical landscape too often cluttered with dum-machines, over-dubs and all the other lipsticks and powders of the studio cosmeticians, the purity of Mary Black's voice is like a breath of fresh air.

Born and raised in the Liberties area of Dublin's inner city, Mary first emerged in the early eighties when she recorded and toured with the traditional music powerhouse, De Danann. Her time as part of this hotbed of cultural cross-fertilisation proved extremely stimulating and instr...