Ireland still brims with creativity, from Kneecap to Haus of Wig. Here’s how to keep the artistry flowing
The housing crisis is artists’ biggest obstacle. Clear that hurdle and it will help keep Irish culture being felt around the world
The housing crisis is artists’ biggest obstacle. Clear that hurdle and it will help keep Irish culture being felt around the world
The Afro-Brazilian performer and teacher staged one of the hits of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. It’s part of a cultural journey
The multidisciplinary Dublin artist is part of the exhibition Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body, at Photo Museum Ireland and has designed three new T-shirts for Medical Aid for Palestinians
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture Nights
The former Stoneybatter hair salon has hosted about 275 public events and more than 500 rehearsals in its three years on Prussia Street
What’s Next For?: Ireland’s up-and-coming musicians need more help, says Siobhan McClean, who has just released her album The Defiance of a Sadgirl
The Dublin singer changed musical direction this year. But she still wants every song she records to come with its own entire world
What’s Next For?: Liam Cagney, a musicologist based in the German capital, is writing a book about Berghain, the city’s fabled nightclub
What’s Next For?: Aisling Phelan and Viva Dean on their new Dublin arts space, which will focus on the creative use of technology
The Wexford artist has been feted by the fashion industry, but he’s much happier out of the spotlight, making the art that drives his creativity
What’s Next For?: The Galway rapper could have been a biochemist but wanted to give music one more shot. The risk is paying off
Roisin Agnew on her new film, which is being screened as part of the IFI Documentary Festival 2024
Merchandise sales are not just a fun thing for independent artists but an important source of income
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
What’s Next For?: Lynch on photographing teenage girls on nights out, Fontaines DC and Irish dancing
What’s Next For?: Dissolutions moving-image festival will showcase work from across Ireland. A permanent base for its makers is long overdue
The artist is heading a project that incorporates plants, fermentation and a small, queer community of growers
What’s Next For?: Dublin’s new community pottery studio already has 70 members, according to the artist who founded it
What’s Next For?: McMaster is one of many skateboarders in Ireland whose visual art is making an impact in a local, DIY, community-building scene
What’s Next For?: The musician, singer and performer is bringing their show Television to this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival
What’s Next For..?: The Dublin-born artist conjures something totally original alongside occasionally familiar objects
Rowley, one of Ireland’s most interesting film-makers, is in the middle of finishing two big projects: Gays Against Guns and Never Stop the Action
The dynamic proponent of spoken and written poetry discusses finding her creative footing in Ireland and missing a Dublin that may not be there any more
Balancing anxiety with humour, and self-deprecation with braggadocio, Curtisy serves up an incredibly satisfying style
What’s Next For?: The producer returns to his home city for a colossal show in the Big Top at Galway International Arts Festival
What’s Next For?: Being introduced to the work of Harry Clarke led her on to iconography. ‘It’s all very bling’
Young Irish artist Monjola is releasing music, throwing parties and developing a community built on positivity and camaraderie
Galwegian Mary Nally is the driving force of Drop Everything, which has taken place on the smallest of the Aran Islands since 2012
Carl Giffney is turning a Kilkenny farmhouse into an artist-run space offering residencies and studios
What’s Next For?: After Mega Dreoilín, Han Hogan and Donal Fullam plan Tenantgotchi and a Grand Canal Dock demolition derby
What’s Next For ... the poet, singer, performer and one half of electro-beat duo 7of9?
The Index nightclub promoters sold 20,000 tickets in 24 hours for District X, their new festival. Going big was a risk that looks to be paying off
The Irish artist capitalised on virtual-reality technology during the painstaking 18-month process
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