Ireland's Favourite Folk Song is a brand new RTÉ TV series presented in association with IMRO, celebrating the songs that define us as a people.

It is worth mentioning that this list is far from exhaustive. I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 23, 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song ...

" The unconscious music of the folk has all the marks of fine art: that it is wholly free from the taint of manufacture, the canker of artificiality; that it is transparently pure and truthful, simple ...

When is a folk song not a folk song? When it’s accompanied by someone on the piano? When its origins lie not in a ploughed field but on a music hall stage? When it’s written not by “anon” but by a ...

Last week, Pittsboro singer-songwriter Joseph Terrell uploaded a new song to social media. Titled “Genuine American Hero,” the folk protest song is written in the style of John Prine or Phil Ochs and ...

Earlier this year, RTÉ asked audiences at home and across the world, to tell us what your favourite folk song is, and why. Our aim was simple: to put together a landmark TV series that celebrates the ...

Jim Reeves was a country music star from Texas who rose to fame in the 1950s. His smooth voice and polite style earned him the nickname Gentleman Jim in the industry. He recorded chart-topping songs ...

Song part of online tributes to the 19 firefighters who died on Sunday Keelaghan wrote the relatively obscure song in the 1990s Song%27s subject is the Mann Gulch wildfire in Montana%2C where 13 ...

"Arirang," which was put on the UNESCO's intangible heritage list Thursday, is the most popular traditional folk song of Koreans. The song with the refrain "Arirang, arirang, arariyo" is often dubbed ...

On February 23, 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song would go on to become one of the most influential and iconic folk ...