There is one song you will probably hear today in St. Patrick’s Day celebrations all over the country and across the world, from the humble village pub to the most elaborate hotel soiree. It is the ...

Chauncey Olcott was born a few years prior to the start of the Civil War to an Irish immigrant mother. He was raised in Buffalo’s rough-and-tumble Canal District, where his mother, Peggy (Doyle) ...

Today, we mark the 147th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Roland Ball (July 22, 1878 – May 3, 1927), the American composer whose heartfelt melody for “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” has become an ...

A Canadian woman celebrated her 101st birthday by singing her favorite Irish songs, including the enormously popular "When Irish Eyes are Smiling". Kathleen Pickard, whose parents emigrated to Canada ...

Some songs don't have any more to them than a good beat you can dance to, and that's fine by me. Other songs have a good beat and layers of stories behind them. ROSE BETTS: I'm Rose Betts. I'm a ...