Cultural landscape on the other side of the pandemic will be very differentSo many festivals and gigs have been cancelled, while the future for theatres, music venues, galleries and cinemas is uncertainSat Mar 28 2020 - 07:00
Coronavirus: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards ceremony cancelledIrish Times managing director expresses hope event might be held at later dateTue Mar 24 2020 - 05:00
Cultural endeavour mutates to survive this weird new worldCoronavirus will profoundly damage the arts but new creative spaces will also openSat Mar 21 2020 - 05:00
Architecture must be built in as more than an outhouse of cultureIrish triumph in Pritzker prize should draw attention to a neglected, crucial artformSat Mar 07 2020 - 07:00
‘Aging, comfortable and stuck’: what happens culture when society gets old?The hollowing out of the youth-oriented music industry is a harbinger of things to comeSat Feb 29 2020 - 07:00
Artists understand the desire for political change better than mostThe key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems facing artistsSat Feb 22 2020 - 07:00
Anne Enright: ‘As a writer, your problems are your solutions’Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian DublinSat Feb 08 2020 - 06:15
How Europe's other Capital of Culture became an art-fascist stateA century ago, Rijeka was taken over by a poet who declared himself dictatorSat Jan 18 2020 - 15:34
Why did Irish Water splash out €800k on a TV documentary?With its eye-watering budget, The Story of Water takes ‘native content’ to a new levelSat Jan 11 2020 - 07:00
Marian Finucane: A pioneering voice in Irish broadcastingWith a career spanning almost five decades, the radio presenter was at the vanguard of media and social changeFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:36
An Appreciation: Fiachra Ó MarcaighPioneering journalist in new technology who was immersed in the Irish languageSun Dec 15 2019 - 19:00
Clint Eastwood’s film tells a lie, but shows us the true ClintIn the film, a real-life female journalist sleeps with a source. There’s no evidence it happenedSat Dec 14 2019 - 08:00
TV reviewers the world over owe debt to Clive JamesAustralian critic created template which has allowed writers freedom to shine ever sinceSat Nov 30 2019 - 08:00
Ardmore expansion raises questions about future directionThe Wicklow studio has avoided fading to black, thanks to new opportunities in international TV-makingSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
The perfect office worker’s capacity for evilThis book seeks to reflect on the modern phenomenon of impersonal, bureaucratic murder.Sat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
House of The Dead: What to do with Joyce’s literary landmark?If the core and front of the house are safe, does it matter what else gets built around it?Sat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
What’s the argument for public service broadcasting, and why isn’t it winning?The worst culprits in this whole sorry affair are undoubtedly the current GovernmentFri Nov 08 2019 - 13:56
Gay Byrne cast a long shadow over Irish broadcasting‘Gay found the pulse of his country and kept his finger firmly placed there’Mon Nov 04 2019 - 15:36
The way we listen to music and words has changed, changed utterlyIndividually tailored streaming means we are now all living in our own bubble of soundSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Things are grim at RTÉ, and they’re going to get grimmerArt sale and Lyric rumours distract from the savage changes needed at State broadcasterSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
Why Leo Varadkar fails the rule of 72 maths testThree years after vowing to double Arts spending by 2024, the Government is already a year behindFri Oct 11 2019 - 14:00
Hugh Linehan: ‘I wouldn’t go back to Communicorp even if they’d have me’Radio bans of Irish Times and The Currency journalists show something is deeply amissSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’The author argues for a radical, anti-capitalist green new deal solution to climate challengeSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?Historical and popular culture landmarks offer valuable opportunities to reflect on eventsSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Why do we keep asking artists what they think of Brexit?The notion of ‘culture’ has been complicated and diluted by its co-option for so many usesSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
Netflix is a huge disappointment in the ‘Golden Age of TV’I naively thought Netflix would mean the world’s best films and TV at your fingertipsSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Maureen Dowd: ‘Trump is the media’s villain and we are his’Pulitzer prize-winning columnist on turmoil in Washington and thriving journalismSat Aug 24 2019 - 06:00
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is a narcissistic monster and a truly great Irish creationThe SoCoDu rugby-loving idiot savant does not translate internationally. That’s a good thingSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
What will public service media look like in five years’ time?Government must face new realities when replacing TV licence with broadcasting chargeSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Anarchy in the UK: Brexit, Billy Bragg and punk rockThe protest singer tells the Irish Times politics podcast punk was about solidarity, not Brexit-style masochsimFri Aug 02 2019 - 10:20
Does the auteur theory hold in the era of big television?The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sportSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Extreme politics stoking the fire of the culture warsNewly emboldened social conservative in age of Trump seek to roll back recent changeSat Jun 29 2019 - 07:00
Inside the Trump presidency: A mad king roams empty hallsFire and Fury author Michael Wolff goes back inside the White House in his new bookSat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00
Have you noticed how Toy Story 4 isn’t so different from Chernobyl?One is cinema that blurs into TV, the other TV that blurs into cinema. Both are brilliantSat Jun 22 2019 - 05:00
Creative Ireland initiative is not perfect but it is making a differenceChildren from all backgrounds could benefit from music, drama and art in every schoolSat Jun 15 2019 - 08:00
Words made flesh: Why author events are the new hot ticketsThe growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiencesSat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Rees-Mogg’s terrible reviews are a cause for celebrationWhen writing a real stinker of a review once defamation laws are not breached then every insult and rhetorical flourish should be deployedSat May 25 2019 - 06:00
Roddy Doyle’s Family stands up as a classic 25 years laterWe hear about TV’s current Golden Age but Family was as great as anything todaySat May 18 2019 - 08:00
Apart from Ryan Tubridy, radio presenters don’t read interviewees’ booksBBC’s cost-cutting instruction to staff not to read books reveals the shallowness of mediaSat May 11 2019 - 07:00
Bob Woodward: ‘In fairness to Trump, he hasn’t started a war’Donald Trump has adopted Nixon’s Watergate strategy, says the veteran Washington reporterSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
‘I hate intervals. The overheated hell of the bar. The aimless milling about’The intermission - or interval to you and me - is a threatened species in theatre and an extinct one in cinemaSat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00
Will Madonna be ‘bullied’ into pulling out of Eurovision in Israel?The singer faces calls to boycott next month’s contest. But it is impervious to politicsSat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00
‘Dublin in the 1970s was a long day’s journey into sh**e’Douglas Kennedy’s time living in Ireland – where he managed the Peacock theatre and wrote for ‘The Irish Times’ – feeds into his new novel, a sprawling, almost 600-page epicWed Jan 30 2019 - 05:00
Anti-Semitism today: ‘Zionist’ is often a euphemism for ‘Jew’Deborah Lipstadt: Anti-Semitism is still with us but not taken seriously in politicsSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Abbey leads the field in Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nominationsControversial co-productions boost national theatre’s tallySat Jan 19 2019 - 01:00
The clocks have gone back, but is it for the last time?Ready for 4am June dawns, 10ams in December and resetting at the Border?Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
Former director of Tyrone Guthrie centre dies in CataloniaBernard Loughlin ran artists’ retreat at Annaghmakerrig in Co Monaghan for 18 yearsSun Oct 21 2018 - 10:54
Could Donald Trump really be spying for Vladimir Putin?In ‘House of Trump, House of Putin’ Craig Unger claims the US leader is a Russian agentSat Aug 25 2018 - 06:00
Aretha Franklin bequeaths enduring legacyThe singer (76), who has died at her Detroit home, made life-affirming soul musicFri Aug 17 2018 - 01:00
Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Arts FestivalAs always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramountSat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00
