St Patrick’s weekend 2026: a guide to parades and events in the coming days

St Patrick’s Day falls on Tuesday, March 17th, but many cities and towns across the country are hosting festivals the weekend before

Big Band Evolution pianist Cormac McCarthy: ‘I’m still not able to understand how I played. It was painful to hit the keys’

The musician hit an unexpected barrier when tendonitis almost stopped him performing. But it also led to his noted career as a composer and arranger

The Gloaming’s Iarla Ó Lionaird: ‘My mother would keep each of her children home from school one day a week so she could get to know us’

Iarla Ó Lionaird, a sean-nós singer, on the romanticism of rural life, growing up in a big family and traditional music

The Guide: The Last Dinner Party, Lauryn Hill and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

October 5th-11th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Earth Sonnet: Mel Mercier’s vast soundscape of poetry and music sticks in the mind long after the performance

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’

Historic Dalkey home with link to Irish rock group for €2.75m

Subdivided seaside seven-bed is the first on a short terrace built in the early 1800s

An Irish plan to break the record for the number of nationalities in a choir

David Brophy’s record-breaking choir attempt at Dubai Expo 2020

Luka Bloom: ‘I’ve made a career banging a good sound out of a cheap guitar’

The musician’s new instrumental album, Out of the Blue, may be his most articulate yet

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett review: Joyous music defying categorisation

The Gloaming duo’s collaboration is dreamlike, mysterious and utterly engaging

Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger review – Innovative exploration of the Famine

This ‘docu-cantata’ examines a painful period for Ireland through compelling music

The Gloaming: The Gloaming 3 review – Visionary exploration of traditional music-making

Group have found their groove and third album provides a focus on the darker side

The Gloaming announce concert series at NCH in March 2019

Dublin performances likely to showcase trad supergroup’s new album, due next spring

The Gloaming: Live at the NCH review – capturing their mesmerising essence

Latest offering an amalgam of 17 sold-out National Concert Hall shows

Rooms for a rent – An Irishman’s Diary on the restored venue of the 1921 Treaty debates