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Wednesday March 14th, 2007

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The Pogues Are Pumped!

Philip Chevron is pumped. The multi-instrumentalist songwriter, fifty-years old later this year, has retained his boyish outlook on life, and is clearly very much looking forward to more time on the road with The Pogues, a band he's played guitar, banjo, mandolin and sang with, on and off, for over twenty-two years Read more...

Just In The Knick Of Rhymes

Aside from a few reasonably notable exceptions there are few styles of music that have eluded the skills of Irish musicians and songwriters so comprehensively as hip hop... Read more...

Bringing The Light To New York's Carnegie Hall

This Wednesday, Carnegie Hall in New York -the renowned center of musical excellence -will play host to the much-lauded 'Celtic Spiritual Evening', featuring one of Ireland's most popular vocal talents, Liam Lawton. Read more...

Joe Kavanagh's Music News

Bono is being forced to defend his highly publicized Red project, after a trade publication claimed that the global brand has done much more for the welfare of firm's marketing divisions than its stated aim of helping to wipe out world poverty Read more...

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

There are all forms of poetry in which the visual element is part of the poem's art, the typographical arrangement of letters and words on the page are as much a part of the poem's essence as the more traditional poetic techniques like prosody, meter, image, etc. Read more...