Here’s to Ireland’s unofficial ambassadors flying flags around the worldCelebrating the men and women flying flags for Ireland from Auckland to Rockland, Paris to BelgradeSat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigreSat Mar 07 2020 - 05:00
Art in focus: Bloodline by Andrei MolodkinMolodkin is best known for his deliberately highly provocative blood worksSat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions of the weekIncluding Niamh O’Malley in Dublin, and Elva Mulchrone and Rosa Mäkelä in GalwaySat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
The tricky art of carbon footprintsArtists tackling the climate catastrophe in their work tread a delicate lineTue Feb 25 2020 - 05:00
Looking at a republic falling apart from the insideCorn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s IrelandSat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00
Art and culture thrive in spaces of disagreementStorms or otherwise, every other Capital of Culture has been beset by problemsSat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
Druid, Chekhov and the politics of powerGarry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the momentSat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00
Going viral: Coronavirus has a lot to teach us about the spread of ideasSuper-spreaders are those able to spread ideas and beliefs far faster than normalSat Feb 08 2020 - 07:00
Election 2020: 10 things you should ask your candidate but probably won’tAs funding for the arts continues to erode, here are the questions to ask on the doorstepSat Feb 01 2020 - 07:00
Free culture guide: Great galleries, gigs and grub that won’t cost you a centWe’ve put together a list of no-cost cultural treats to see you through the winterMon Jan 27 2020 - 06:00
On the centenary of Prohibition, is creative intoxication still a thing?Writers have often used drink or drugs to ‘see beyond’ reality. Or was it all an illusion?Sat Jan 25 2020 - 07:00
Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? YesThe Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look likeWed Jan 08 2020 - 05:00
How Aria?: The opera challenging stigma around mental healthPerformance combining opera, poetry and mental health launches with First FortnightSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Living in Instagram on holidays in the MaldivesSense of fragility and air of unreality pervade life on the island nation in South AsiaSun Dec 22 2019 - 06:10
We Make Good, the social enterprise linking designers and makersGorgeous gifts come guilt-free from this Irish initiative that is a model of how to do things rightSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:05
Forget socks and jocks: Last-minute Christmas gifts they’ll really thank you forDon't panic - we've got you covered with this list of thoughtful gift ideas for every budgetSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:02
Bust to empty boom: What shaped our public spaces in the past decadeThe Decaste in Culture: The 'quarterisation' of our cities reached a ludicrous peak with derided Grafton QuarterSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
What a load of smetch: new words to describe artText plays a tricky role in art – as descriptors or part of the exhibitWed Dec 18 2019 - 05:00
Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than everTollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glorySat Dec 14 2019 - 01:00
New Aer Lingus flights announced from Shannon to Paris and BarcelonaTravel deals: Plan an escape with these holiday ideas in Ireland and abroadSun Nov 24 2019 - 05:00
Acting out the apocalypse – in dustbinsThe cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevanceSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
When the world’s best photographers came to Ireland, here’s what they sawCartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Robert Cresswell caught Irish life in the 1950sWed Nov 20 2019 - 05:00
Cooking food from video games offers escapist fantasyDesire to replicate delicacies from Azeroth or Tamriel part of society’s obession with food in abstractSat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
Roland Mouret: In Ireland, the air smells different and people are like familyThe designer talks bees, waste and growing up in Lourdes ahead of project at the RHAMon Nov 11 2019 - 06:00
Look at this picture. What do you see?Eoin McHugh’s latest exhibition gets us closer to things we can’t see or comprehendSat Nov 02 2019 - 05:00
Take a punt on former Buck Whaley Curragh home for €1.85mAll the formal rooms you need for entertaining and a stud farm right next doorThu Oct 10 2019 - 00:00
Why are Irish world class architects not building in Ireland?Grafton Architects have just won the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, but are ineligible to tender for many major projects at homeWed Oct 09 2019 - 05:00
Can the arts come up with an alternative to capitalism?Change is possible, and it can come from individual actsSat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
Why does Ireland not have a National Museum of Science?A museum would put this country’s contribution to global developments in contextSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
A Georgian jewel in west Cork’s coastal crown for €3.8mStone Hall on Glandore Harbour, once left to decay, has been restored to its former gloryThu Sept 19 2019 - 06:00
First look inside the new Museum of Literature IrelandMoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and moreSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Insider art: finding release through creativity in Irish prisonsInmates at Midlands prison explain what making art means to themThu Sept 12 2019 - 05:00
One night only? Culture Night’s ambitions go much furtherWhat began in Dublin in 2006 is now a national behemoth on a cultural missionMon Sept 09 2019 - 05:00
Why does the heart want what it wants? Desire at ImmaA new exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art strips back to a primal forceSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
Racing cert at former jockey's Kildare riverside home for €3mCastlesize House in Sallins is the home of former champion jockey LIam Ward and sits on 37 acresWed Sept 04 2019 - 12:00
How can art be judged and valued?Public funding of the arts has become a nebulous and convoluted processSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
‘The answer is more’: Dublin Fringe director on choosing acts and supporting artistsRuth McGowan wants to transform lives, inspire change, and test her own limitsSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
Time for the RDS to flex its cultural musclesSociety should go back to its roots, as scattergun use of venue is not helping it fulfill its potentialSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
‘Developing appreciation can slow down the incredible race to consume’Master craftsman Joseph Walsh suggests a different and inspiring idea of cultureThu Aug 01 2019 - 05:00
Kim Gordon: ‘I never think of myself as famous – I’m barely famous’The Sonic Youth co-founder on her new exhibition at IMMA, her relationship with fame, the changing face of feminism and her strange fascination with AirbnbWed Jul 31 2019 - 05:00
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productionsSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Galway International Arts Festival: The must-see eventsThe best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surpriseSun Jul 14 2019 - 06:00
Why the ancient Greeks didn’t make a big deal of penis sizeA Cork gallery has removed the fig leaves from its statues, showing that small is beautifulSat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Jersey: An unusual little island that feels surprisingly familiarWhere immigration controls are incredibly strict and the tax laws favour the wealthy, it’s tempting to see it as a microcosm of post-Brexit BritainSun Jul 07 2019 - 06:00
Toxic philanthropy: When arts sponsorships mask social illsWe must ensure the super rich don’t get a pass because they fling money at the artsSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam JinksArtist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)Sat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
From Russia with music, love and a single suitcaseA peek at the schedule of one of Ireland’s most renowned pianists: Barry DouglasSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Fès: Marrakesh’s quieter, timeless little sisterThe 1,200-year-old Moroccan city has that captivating sense of being at a crossroads: of cultures and of timeSat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00
The Small Things: Blood and violence and love, but no chemistryReview: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the coldThu Jun 20 2019 - 06:12
