Róisín Ingle: The only Mother's Day playlist you need this Sunday
Matriarchal music, from John Lennon’s tribute to his mother Julia to the Spice Girls' magnificent Mama
Matriarchal music, from John Lennon’s tribute to his mother Julia to the Spice Girls' magnificent Mama
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money
Synnot will be first living Irish composer to have work featured on main stage of Wexford Festival Opera
Gig of the week: Line-up includes Camille O’Sullivan, Meow Meow and Gavin Friday
Ruth McGowan wants to transform lives, inspire change, and test her own limits
The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America
Early morning offerings run a narrow gamut from hectic to lightweight
Eyre Square to be transformed into a ‘festival garden’ with series of events lined up for city
Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020
Camille O'Sullivan talks to Róisín Ingle about Shakespeare, her daughter Lila and her boyfriend Aidan Gillen
If a bomb went off at the National Concert Hall gig that would have been it for the Irish music scene
The Pogues singer is celebrating his 60th birthday at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on Monday, January 15th. Here, his friends pay tribute
The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions
Tickets for the January National Concert Hall gig, which features a stellar line-up, go on sale this Friday
Also playing are God is an Astronaut, Sylvan Esso, Rag’n’Bone Man, while BellX1’s Paul Noonan goes solo
New director Selina Cartmell announces first programme, after Michael Colgan exits, stage left
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
The Women’s Podcast: Extracts from Repeal -A Night in the Key of 8 a fundraiser for the ‘repeal project’ include poetry by Una Mullally and FeliSpeaks
The Belgian songwriter’s caustic social criticism is at the heart of the Gate Theatre production
Dublin Theatre Festival: Irish poems set to music beg the question - why?
The new director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival high hopes for her role leading this ‘explosion of the arts’ - including the Funniest Joke of the Fringe
The cultural programming in Ireland’s art galleries is focused on what it means to be a citizen in today’s connected world
The city’s main arts festival has helped transform a suburb. With a changing of the guard can it also alter its own identity?
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
Dramatic impetus character driven while Rising’s familiar protagonists on sidelines
Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival
The hedonistic years and a near-death experience took their toll on Marc Almond, but he remains productive and still has a knack for reimagining others’ songs
In a new column called How Music Works, Niall Byrne talks to those who make a living in the Irish music industry, who shape the musical landscape and who build up the country’s musical reputation, at home and abroad. This week, manager, agent, producer Úna Molloy
From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you
Summer dinner party launches paperback edition of Clodagh McKenna title
Great theatre tends to give suicide a power and a glamour it must not be given in society. With ‘Four Last Things’, Lisa Tierney-Keogh attempts to make a play about a suicide that does not give the act meaning and drama but still works as theatre
Camille O’Sullivan gives the wronged Lucrece a powerful voice as Shakespeare’s text is condensed into 12 songs
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices