Born to be a blacksmith, blinded and then having found music, Turlough O'Carolan, passed away aged 68 on March 25, 1738. This County Meath man's music continues to be played by the likes of Planxty ...

The CD consists of 17 tracks drawn from the handful of studio albums, beginning with Christy's inimitable version of Norman Blake’s True Love Knows No Season (Billy Gray) and ending with Timedance, ...

Planxty are one of those seminal Irish acts doomed to bask in an aura of reverence while remaining essentially obscure to all but a tiny subset of the listening public. They placed a rocket under the ...