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 ...

The Irish folk band revel in each other’s company on a trip down memory lane Taking up the same stage positions they have occupied, on and off, since archive footage shot around the time they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planxty, The Chieftains and Christy Moore are amongst the artists on a compilation album from the early years of the Lisdoonvarna festival. Donal Lunny has compiled the album which also includes songs ...

Modern master of the Irish uilleann pipes who was a co-founder of the folk band Planxty Revered as a modern master of the Irish uilleann pipes, Liam O’Flynn, who has died aged 72, was a solo performer ...

After an interlude of some 30 years, Planxty were back in town last night. After an interlude of some 30 years, Planxty were back in town last night. And it was a triumphal return for the famous ...

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 ...

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 ...