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Going Loco – Frank McNally on Flann O’Brien and the Inchicore Railway Works

An Irishman’s Diary

The best classical music to see this week

Tara Erraught leads master classes in song and opera, Sinead O’Kelly is at the National Concert Hall and Mihhail Gerts will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Two operatic B-movies, a stinker of a concept, and some sub-Verdian striving

Wexford Festival Opera reviews: ‘Leoni’ and ‘Mala Vita’; ‘Dinner at Eight’; and ‘Il Bravo’

I love Bloomsday for all its profoundly cynical philistinism

Unlike most national festivals, from Bastille Day to Thanksgiving, it does not commemorate death and destruction

In the South: Brodsky String Quartet