Irish music, began with the spread of religious music through the engagement of Irish monks in the monasteries of what was then Europe in the 9th century. From harp music to the “Messiah” Nothing has survived from the heyday of music in the early Middle Ages; possibly the important treatise […]

Nearly eight of ten Irishmen are Catholics. Other Christians are mainly Anglicans, Presbyterians or Methodists. Church organizations were not divided when Ireland was divided but are common to the Republic and Northern Ireland. A majority of immigrants are also Catholics, but through immigration, the number of Muslims (approximately 63,400 in […]