The best of times for Cork Midsummer festival
Arts Council grant of €450,000 covers ‘everything we wanted to do’, says director
Cork Jazz Festival fails to move with the times
This year’s jazz festival has gone back to old habits, with some not-really-jazz headliners
Rising stars and a celebration of Sarah Vaughan: This week’s best jazz gigs
The return of Rodrigo Almonte to his sometime home is also among the highlights
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival director has ‘contract terminated’ after a year
Sinéad Dunphy’s first programme, in October 2018, was widely regarded as a success
Netflix films tipped for Oscars unlikely to be shown in Irish cinemas
Independent cinemas criticise ‘exclusive’ deal with Curzon chain, which has no screens in Ireland
Cork Film Festival to open with ‘Float Like a Butterfly’
Over 250 feature, documentary and short films to screen over next ten days
The beat goes on: Guinness Cork Jazz Fest gets a reboot
New director Sinéad Murphy wants to renew the 40-year-old event without losing the fun
Poet Matthew Sweeney’s ‘buckets of imagination’ recalled
Children recall colourful and often immature times in company of late Aosdána member
Fears for future of Cork Jazz Festival as programmer’s contract is not renewed
Title sponsor Diageo made decision, says festival chair
The best arts shows to see this week
If you think contemporary art is no laughing matter, a trip to Project might change your mind
'I was told if I got in the way, I’d get f***ed up against the wall, camera or no camera'
Roller derby is a bruising sport played by ‘women who are unafraid and totally outspoken’
How finding oil can be a country’s downfall
In Oil is the Devil's Excrement, artist David Jacques looks at how oil discoveries can hamper a country, as domestic manufacturing and agriculture fade and growth suffers in the long term
John Montague: A noble procession of poems has passed out of Irish life
Ulster poet had a ‘dramatic, engaged, fruitful literary life right to the end of his days’
Going Out: The best of what’s on this weekend
A round-up of the best events taking place across the country this weekend
Pantos, grottos and great places to see Santa
Things to do and shows to see with children over the Christmas holidays
All that jazz? Cork festival’s programme divides fans
Debate over Guinness Jazz Festival’s definition of the genre becomes an argument
Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?
Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists say
Artist to do live sketch of Rory Gallagher for Cork Culture Night
Over 200 events planned in Cork city to include outdoor films and concerts by candlelight
Jane Gardam: tales of unmarried aunts and the outcasts of the colony
Novelist will read from third book of trilogy on characters in colonial administration in Cork this week
What’s on around Ireland this weekend
A guide to events including Waterford music week and hiking up Croagh Patrick
Following a dark night of the soul, Fr Tony Flannery is back on the road again, moving towards the light
The outspoken priest is giving a series of talks on ‘ways forward’ for the Catholic Church
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