A portrait of James Joyce taken in January 1941. It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what ...

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Were it not for the pusillanimity of publishers and printers, we might have celebrated the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 2006 or 2009. But Joyce's refusal to cut or edit ...

Barney McKenna, the last founding member of the Irish folk band the Dubliners, has died aged 72. It is understood McKenna collapsed at his Dublin home on Thursday morning and was pronounced dead at ...

Celtic rock band Young Dubliners’ young beginnings were as a bar band. Literally. In their early days in the mid-1990s, they were the house band for the bar that frontman and guitar player Keith ...

Talk to Keith Roberts of The Young Dubliners and the story of his Celtic rock band's struggle to reach a wider audience reads much like that of a young garage band. The lifestyle is one of endless ...

American Pie singer Don McLean and veteran Irish band the Dubliners are to be honoured for their lifetime achievements at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Dubliners are celebrating their 50th ...

With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the ...