After decades in live entertainment and commercial partnerships, Richard Tierney took on Ireland’s national festival with a clear brief: make it sustainable and prove it could stand on its own two feet.
What do you know about the Book of Kells? And what do you think you know? A new book by art historian Victoria Whitworth questions its origin story.
Ten years ago, a response to the Abbey’s programme to mark the 1916 centenary launched the Waking the Feminists movement. Sarah Durcan was one of the organisers and she talks about a new book on the movement.
The self-made billionaire is the most profitable live musician in history. What drives her? Good old American moneymaking.
The artist, celebrated for his dynamic three-dimensional works, reflects on his decision to turn to art in his 40s and how a glass half-full attitude and some luck along the way helped him find his place in the art world.
In her new thriller, It Should Have Been You, Andrea Mara unfurls the meeting point of technology, loneliness and the taboo all new mothers face.
There is a difference between the history and the stories we tell ourselves. Historian Mike Cronin talks to Dion Fanning about how altering the stories will take generations, and being an English academic writing on Irish history.
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan getting the screen treatment in recent months are just the latest incarnations of an increasingly popular genre that has featured such diverse geniuses as Mozart and Johnny Cash.
Once a capital city where Irish people struggled to punctuate meaning, impact and influence, London now boasts an Irish cultural calling card. But what’s behind the change?
Listening to Michael Parkinson that evening, journalism, radio, and television in the England of the 1970s appeared to reflect an emerging dynamism, free-spiritedness, or even bolshiness of younger generations in northern England.
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