Dance extravaganza gets in step with ‘Ireland of today’Riverdance founders hope to also bring Heartbeat of Home around the worldThu Oct 03 2013 - 10:56
Riverdance team Fuse flamenco and fiddlers in new show‘Heartbeat of Home’, a new dance show from the creators of ‘Riverdance’, with lyrics by Joseph O’Connor and music by Brian Byrne, is drawing a new musical map of IrelandSat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Stuff we don’t do any moreDrinking at lunchtime, using a bureau de change, writing a letter and using a phone box were everyday activities 20 years ago. What’s it like living as an Irishman from the not-so-distant past?Sat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
Life is a PicnicOn its 10th anniversary, Electric Picnic turned on, tuned in, and sold out. ‘The Irish Times’ went down to the woods to get a big surprise. Here are the best bits …Mon Sept 02 2013 - 01:00
Slow Skies: Grey SkiesA textured vulnerability to Karen Sheridan’s vocals makes the whole thing more interestingSat Aug 31 2013 - 10:05
Wu Tang Clan: From Staten Island to StradballySeven kung fu-obsessed rhymers slowly take to the stage over a crunching backbeatSat Aug 31 2013 - 09:56
Are school fees fair?Belvedere College’s ‘social diversity programme’, which features in the new RTÉ documentary The Scholarship, offers a private education to pupils who can’t afford the Dublin school’s fees. Critics say such schemes wouldn’t be needed if our education system were more equalSat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
Video: All the news that’s fit to singirishtimes.com features the first of a series of online ‘musical columns’. Temper-Mental MissElayneous, Doctor Millar and other songwriters will sing about Ireland and its crises, to rekindle the social fire at the heart of musicSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
Yellow Rose of Texas takes tiara and midnight madness begins‘What goes on in Tralee stays in Tralee . . . Ah, but it’s a great festival all the same’Wed Aug 21 2013 - 17:48
Texan with Monaghan links named 2013 Rose of TraleeDancing in the dark and some codding as frenetic pace slackens a little in second halfTue Aug 20 2013 - 22:13
Boyfriend Kyle takes a gamble on Molly as Roses stay on messageImpervious to irony, and terrifying in their positivity, the Roses still impressTue Aug 20 2013 - 00:53
Mass, Muppets and mayhem as Roses prepare for today’s first round in Tralee‘The smiling hurts a bit, but it’s all natural’Sun Aug 18 2013 - 23:01
'Charlie Brooker is not an angry crank'He made his name with his excoriating TV reviews. Now the Screen Burn columnist is more likely to be the one making the programmes. Either way, Charlie Brooker hasn’t lost his sense of the absurd – or of the macabreSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
It could be a close shave at this year’s Rose of TraleeGlow-in-the-dark dancers and kissing fish – this year could be one to watchWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Funerals: sticking with traditionThe majority of funerals in this country are still Catholic, a rural priest talks about the phenomenonSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
The way we die nowThe Irish are famously good at throwing a funeral, but with more wakes, cremations and nonreligious ceremonies, how we mark a loved one’s passing is changingSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
Arts co-operative draws on ‘free space’ to create a community-focused ethosA ‘social experiment’ in arts and cultural participation faces a precarious futureSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Investing in the people’s bankCredit unions, sucked into a banking crisis that now threatens the viability of some, are the financial life-blood of many appreciative communitiesSat Jul 27 2013 - 12:00
Belong To celebrates 10 years of showing teens that ‘being gay is okay’The organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) young people focuses on their mental health needsSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Curiouser and curiouser: the key to health and happiness?Research suggests that maintaining an inquiring mind can make us happier and even prolong our lives. Just as well the Festival of Curiosity starts in Dublin on July 25th, thenWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Dead pigeons, live sheep, naked men: welcome to Kino KabaretThere’s been a burst of film-making in the heart of Dublin thanks to Kino, an international network of guerrilla filmmakers.Sat Jul 20 2013 - 00:00
A sorry situation: when politicians grapple with apologyPolitical gaffes and seeking forgivenessWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
Cool to be kind: an experiment in nicenessAhead of Clonakilty Random Acts of Kindness Festival, Patrick Freyne set out to discover how people react to acts of altruism on the streetsTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
No longer a waste of space as group aims to create parks and recreation around cityA Dublin collective is getting ready to open its first pop-up park on a derelict siteSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Bitcoin – the people’s currency or dangerously subversive?Value of cybercurrency has fluctuated between €30 and €140 in recent monthsSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Revolutionary art: the writing on the wallThousands of Egyptians will protest tomorrow to mark the anniversary of President Morsi’s first year in power. The street art of Bahia Shehab has played an unlikely role in the revolutionSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
‘It is humanity in all its beauty, hairy arse and warts’Finding one’s inner clown is part of a tradition dating back to ancient GreeceSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
The torture never endsThousands of survivors of torture live in Ireland. We talk to three of them, from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Northern IrelandSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:01
‘There’s a need to present a positive alternative to the G8, a different way . . . ’The local is global for Fermanagh marchersTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
‘God must be a capitalist,’ says a disappointed man at G8 protest in BelfastThe scale of security seemed to dwarf the good-natured protest activitiesMon Jun 17 2013 - 01:00
Sky’s latest laugh with its comedy commitmentSky’s first ever head of comedy, Lucy Lumsden, talks about the serious business of funnyMon Jun 10 2013 - 01:00
Marxist plotting an Irish revolutionIn the wake of mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey, a Dublin socialist tells Patrick Freyne that revolution here is possibleSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
After tough times Irish hoteliers are managing againThe hotel industry offers a perfect illustration of Ireland’s boom - and then bust. With many controlled by Nama, or paying off huge mortgages, smaller tourist numbers and Irish customers wanting ever better deals, how are today’s hoteliers coping? Patrick Freyne and Rosita Boland reportSat Jun 08 2013 - 00:00
Graphic novelist with a $100m movie on his mindIrish Lives: Mark Mahon aims high with graphic novel about the VikingsSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
A night on the tilesWhat more natural challenge to set during Dublin Writers Festival than to play Scrabble against The Irish Times?Sat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Old hands at film-makingDavid and Sally Shaw-Smith, who made RTÉ’s acclaimed Hands films, documenting Ireland’s waning craft and farming traditions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, are retracing their steps for a new seriesTue May 28 2013 - 01:00
Inferno, by Dan BrownArmed with nothing but tweed and factoids, can art historian Robert Langdon solve yet another supercrime?Sat May 25 2013 - 02:00
Hard to stay optimistic living in Hatch HallPatrick Freyne visits the direct-provision centre for asylum seekers at Hatch HallSat May 25 2013 - 02:00
‘In Ireland you are two steps away from having nowhere to live, with just the clothes you stand in’The Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street in Dublin feeds up to 950 people every day who are down on their luckSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
Speaking in tongues: the man who made a career of making up languagesDavid J Peterson is not an actor nor a composer but some of his best work can be heard in ‘Game of Thrones’. Meet the president of the Language Creation SocietyMon May 13 2013 - 02:00
Savouring flavour of tales best taken with a pinch of saltTall stories and tangled tales are a staple at the Dublin YarnspinnersSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
The internet archaeologists digging up the digital dark ageWho’s exploring the ancient internet? As Cern reconstructs the world’s first website, other web archive projects are trying to retrace our steps through the digital pastSat May 04 2013 - 06:00
Nothing like a good smoke and a whiff of danger to give beekeepers a buzzLiam McGarry is an advocate of the beekeeping life but it isn’t all sweetness and flightSat May 04 2013 - 01:00
Simply DarinaDarina Allen talks to Patrick Freyne about overseeing a food empire in good times and badSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Success is a fair-weather friend for one of the world’s oldest entertainment businessesIt has been around since 1913 but even Cassely’s has to bow to a high windSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
