Horslips and Shamrock’n’roll

In partnership with Hinterland.

Irish music — where it has come from, how it’s been developing, why Sinéad (O’Connor of course) sings sean-nós, and how Horslips fit into the story. The second instalment of Irish musical legend, Jim Lockhart‘s musings on the ‘Long March’ of modern Irish popular music, and on the part played in the revolution by those maestros of Celtic Rock, the five Horsemen of the Apocalypse, better known as Horslips.