Born in Dublin, Roberts moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to be a journalist. (More on that later.) Instead, he bought a bar in 1992 in Santa Monica, Calif., providing a venue for the Young ...

The Young Dubliners' tour for its latest album, "9," will bring them to Grand Junction on Friday, Sept. 27, at Mesa Theater and Lounge, 538 Main St. This newest album was released earlier this year ...

When the Young Dubliners got their start 18 years ago in Los Angeles, the pool of Irish bands was small, including future legends U2 and pioneering punk band The Pogues. "Most peoples' idea of Irish ...

During the early 1980s, the holy trinity of alt-rock out of the United Kingdom comprised U2, which hails from Ireland, Big Country from Scotland and the Alarm from Wales. Each of the then-emerging ...

Keith Roberts knows people aren’t thrilled when he and his bandmates pull in next to them at a campsite. It’s odd to even think of Roberts at a Montana campground, but the Irish-born lead singer of ...

The Young Dubliners play the Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road, at 8 p.m. Friday. The Celtic rock group, whose discs include 2014’s “Nine,” have performed on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” had songs ...

“Banjo” Barney McKenna, the last original member of Irish folk band the Dubliners, died Thursday, April 5, while having a morning cup of tea with a friend. He was 72 and had just marked his 50th year ...

YOUNG DUBLINERS, THE CELTIC rockers now based in Los Angeles, go the roots route on this collection: "thirteen songs of love, war, emigration, incarceration and drinking." The scrappy quintet led by ...

Ed Sheeran’s recent version of “Raglan Road” drew some harsh criticisms, but now John Sheahan of The Dubliners has offered a sort of olive branch to the British singer-songwriter. Sheeran, accompanied ...

In association with the legendary Irish pub O’Donoghue’s, the famous venue where The Dubliners first started performing, ...

For some, Celtic Rock might be reserved for St. Paddy's Day, paired with a green beer and corned beef. But for the Young Dubliners, it's a year-round, if slightly misleading, label for its ...

Ronnie Drew, the gravelly voiced folk singer and guitarist who founded the Irish group the Dubliners and also sang with the Pogues and other rock bands, died on Saturday in Dublin. He was 73. Mr. Drew ...