Language and the role it plays in shaping identity was a driving theme for writer-director Rich Peppiatt when he embarked on making Kneecap, Ireland’s official submission for the International Feature ...

Here’s something new and different. The sounds of Irish hip hop were echoed across the Coachella Valley this weekend, the first weekend of the biggest music concert in the world, as Belfast trio ...

A biopic about a scrappy Belfast band that raps in Irish was a surprise hit at Sundance this year. NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Kneecap" director and the bandmembers - who also star in the film. Much ...

Kneecap, the hip hop trio whose irreverent Irish-language raps are a beating anti-colonialist cry with a growing worldwide fanbase, had heard Coachella crowds were full of dilettantes who didn't dance ...

It’s almost surprising that a hip-hop band from the perennially troubled, still-British province of Northern Ireland hasn’t emerged until now: It’s the right kind of place. Admittedly, “race,” in the ...