It was half way through “The Boarding House,” a story from James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, published exactly 100 years ago, that I realized what good writing really was. In the story a young man ...

Talk to Keith Roberts of The Young Dubliners and the story of his Celtic rock band's struggle to reach a wider audience reads much like that of a young garage band. The lifestyle is one of endless ...

Robert McMillen chats to Ceoladh Sheahan about keeping the legend of her father’s famous band alive with The Dubliners Encore ...

If you see a group of fans breaking into Irish "gig pits" then you know you're definitely at a Young Dubliners concert. The Young Dubliners rocked the Second Cup Café stage with an ode to the Emerald ...

Members of the Young Dubliners are pictured. The band will perform Saturday at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. One of the world’s leading Celtic Rock bands – the Young Dubliners – will perform a ...

During the early 1980s, the holy trinity of alt-rock out of the United Kingdom comprised U2, which hails from Ireland, Big Country from Scotland and the Alarm from Wales. Each of the then-emerging ...

Celtic rock band Young Dubliners’ young beginnings were as a bar band. Literally. In their early days in the mid-1990s, they were the house band for the bar that frontman and guitar player Keith ...

When the Young Dubliners take the stage, crowds tend to get a little confused. The standard intro begins something like: "And now, straight from Los Angeles ... ." "And then I start talking," lead ...

With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the ...

Barney McKenna, banjo player with veteran folk group the Dubliners, has died at the age of 72. McKenna, known affectionately as Banjo Barney, was the last remaining member of the original line-up of ...