From rockabilly to sean-nós: Imelda May reconnects with the Irish language through song

It is sung unaccompanied and is highly ornamented, with different sean-nós styles found in the various Gaeltacht areas of ...
Irish Central

WATCH: Irish language covers of Taylor Swift, Post Malone, and more

What’s even better than listening to your favorite hit songs? Watching an insanely talented bunch of students perform those songs in Irish! Ireland’s coolest Irish language school, Coláiste Lurgan, ...

Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages

Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both ...
THE WEEK

Kneecap: 'ballsy and brave' Irish-language music biopic

"The Troubles meets 'Trainspotting'" in this "riotous Belfast-set comedy" about the rise of the real-life hip hop trio Kneecap, said Ed Power in The Daily Telegraph. The members of the Irish-language ...
The New York Times

A Celtic Revival, in Hip-Hop and More

The trio Kneecap is pioneering Irish-language rap, a genre that barely existed a decade ago. By Una Mullally BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On a recent evening in a small, rowdy, West Belfast bar, Mo ...