Paul Mescal spoke Gaeilge at the Baftas, Cillian Murphy at the Oscars. Films are being written in it, dramas acted in it – and rappers are translating drug lingo into it. Our writer hails an extraordinary renaissance

Featuring grisly trad tales, striking vocals, two members of Lankum and shades of PJ Harvey, this is a compelling record from Claddagh’s first signing for nearly two decades

The Mercury-nominated four-piece play every song as if they’re fighting with it, gasping for air before verses

Without diluting their power or abandoning their gothic intensity, the Dublin group’s fourth album lulls the listener with songs of exquisite softness and deeply affecting harmony

Lankum mainstay Ian Lynch’s debut as One Leg One Eye is an immersive world of created sounds and raw, resonant singing

Folk standards get extreme makeovers on the Dublin four-piece’s latest, cementing their place at the forefront of the form

Lankum deal in murder ballads, drinking songs and originals about the world’s terrors as if they were in a Coen brothers’ folk-horror movie