Fermoy-native Uilleann Pipe master David Hegarty tells Dónal Nolan of the instrument's timeless appeal and its extraordinary heritage in the southwest David Hegarty playing his beloved Uilleann ...

Uilleann piper Sorcha Ní Scolaí and harper Lily O’Connor have won the Bonn Óir Sean Ó Riada Competition 2025. Each year, the traditional music competition focuses on a different instrument or set of ...

Seamus Kelly, author of the book, Bernard ‘Barney’ Delaney (1854-1923) Offaly and Chicago which was published in 2024, talked about the musical fame of the forgotten master uilleann piper. In his ...

The 60-minute performance at Project Arts Centre is a wonderful ghost-train ride into an otherworld powered by droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise.

Considered one of the finest Uilleann Pipes players in the world, he is the son of fiddler Ted Furey, and brother of Eddie Furey, Paul Furey (died 2002), and George Furey. The family performed as ...