Anyone who's ever heard a Black 47 song knows the New York rock band has deep musical roots in Ireland. But founder Larry Kirwan reveals it was an Englishman's writings about New York City's most ...

11, 2001, when the band he led, Black 47, played Connolly’s Pub in Manhattan. The crowd would look to the door each time it opened, and cheer at the sight of a familiar face. Johnny’s here!

Black 47 plays a farewell show in Yonkers. The band "changed a lot of attitudes," says Larry Kirwan. Black 47's latest and last album "Last Call" came out earlier this month. Anyone who's ever ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Black 47 lead singer Larry Kirwan says his Irish-American rock group plans to disband in early November 2014, 25 years after its first gig. Kirwan said in an email to ...

Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, director Lance Daly's Irish revenge Western 'Black 47' has its world premiere at the Berlinale. By Stephen Dalton A revenge Western set against the ...

BLACK 47 is out on digital download today, and its star James Frecheville spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk about the "huge responsibility" of his role in a film that addresses one of the most ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: Black '47 -Watching the Irish suffer from the view of London, Sir Charles Trevelyan believed that the potato famine was part of God's will.

You know what you’re going to get with a Black 47 album: soulful, danceable rock and roll embellished with a funky horn section, fiddle, uilleans and pipes. More than anything else, it’s the ...

"Black 47" is essential viewing for any Irish American. "Black 47" the movie is set for late September release in the US. It is the first Irish western with a Clint Eastwood-like figure named ...

Black 47 was released in Ireland on September 5 and the movie, the first ever set during the Irish famine, has received glowing reviews. Written by PJ Dillon and Pierce Ryan, with collaboration ...