A 2021 documentary examined how the Dubliners' iconic song "Seven Drunken Nights" was once banned by national broadcaster RTÉ because of its sexual nature. Released in 1967, the song "Seven Drunken ...

Jim McCann, singer and former member of the folk group The Dubliners, has died at the age of 70. A member of The Dubliners from 1974-1979, Mr McCann also had a long solo career. McCann was born in ...

“Banjo” Barney McKenna died at his home in Howth, Dublin, on Thursday morning while enjoying a cup of tea with an old friend. He was the last surviving member of the much loved Dubliners Irish folk ...

This year marks a century since the publication of Dubliners by James Joyce, and a year since writer and editor Thomas Morris struck on an idea to riff on the literary classic. As Morris explained it, ...

Produced by Nathan Joseph; head of Transatlantic Records. There’s no denying the worldwide and lasting impact the Dubliners had on Irish folk music. Following on the tails of the success of The Clancy ...

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Billy Connolly once called the Dubliners "folk music's Rolling Stones", but the rousing wild men of the Irish traditional scene sadly never reached their 50th anniversary in the same lucrative style.