The boys are back. This CD/DVD is a timely reminder, 44 years after their debut, of the revolutionary musical imaginations that fuelled Planxty's music and shaped so much of what has happened since ...

Since Planxty was probably my all time favorite band of the trad-folk revival many moons ago, it has been an unfulfilled dream to see them reunited and doing a U.S. tour. While the starting four of ...

Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn have reformed legendary trad band Planxty for a series of gigs in Vicar Street in early 2004. In 1971 folk singer Christy Moore gathered some ...

Shaggy-haired and casually dressed as ever, Ed Sheeran is grinning ear to ear when we meet him in a London hotel. We’d like to believe it’s because of our radiant company, but it turns out he was just ...

Tonight's 'No Disco' features an hour-long special dedicated to legendary Irish band Planxty. Presented by Leagues O'Toole, the programme features exclusive interviews with founding members Christy ...

HE IS known as the godfather of Irish contemporary music and Bono calls him "the Quincy Jones of Ireland". Donal Lunny is legendary amongst the great and the good of the Irish music scene; think of ...

Planxty musician Andy Irvine is set to steal the spotlight at Barrys Public House, Grange on Friday week, August 25. From Sweeney’s Men in the mid 60s to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s, to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irish music giant Liam O'Flynn, who helped form influential folk band Planxty, has died aged 72. The uilleann piper, who ...

In the first of the latest run of the series by Jim Comet, the Cork music aficionado picks his favourite concert records Jim Comet, centre, picks David Bowie and the Velvet Underground amid his ...

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 ...

Irish music giant Liam O'Flynn, who helped form influential folk band Planxty, has died aged 72. The uilleann piper, who collaborated with Kate Bush and Sinead O'Connor, had been suffering from a long ...