“Farewell to the Gold” is a contemporary folk ballad written by New Zealand songwriter Paul Metsers in the late 1960s. Though often mist...

  “ Fergie McCormack ,” sung by Daoirí Farrell and written by Marcus Turner, is a darkly comic folk ballad that twists heroism into absurdit...

“Sonny’s Dream” is a beloved folk song written in 1976 by Newfoundland songwriter Ron Hynes , inspired by his uncle, Sonny O’Neill. Though ...

 Piaras Ó Lorcáin is definitely one of the upcoming new voices in Irish Folk. I posted about him some time ago (look here) . This is a vide...