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Bauza was the modern voice of cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Irvine – a founding member of Planxty – was thrilled by Lunny’s empathy, both as a friend and as a musician

The mezzo-soprano has sung Bizet’s title role in English, in Calixto Bieito’s version. Now she’s to perform the original version for Irish National Opera

The band’s operatic rock is made for our era of reduced attention spans, pivoting from punk to prog and back with such feral joy that you can’t not pay attention

Although brilliant at showing the consequences of Trump administration actions, the book is limited in explaining the reasons behind them

In a Word: Doomsday. Dire predictions have accompanied every so-called dangerous advance

Review: The avant-garde R&B singer embodies the genre-blurring ethos of a line-up that also features Nashpaints, Shampain, Voice Actor and Proc Fiskal

October 25th-30th highlights: including Dr Marie Cassidy Investigates Ireland’s Last Witch Trial, the Celebrity Traitors finale, and The Handel Scandal

The friends made music together through decades when Ireland became a lot more liberal. But it could still be more egalitarian, like the society Irvine’s hero Woody Guthrie campaigned for

The inaugural winner of the Francis Bacon Award for lifetime achievement in Irish visual art on his creative process

Sarah Moss: Is it possible for me, an immigrant writer, to produce ‘Irish fiction’?

Plus Winterveil by Ava Reid; Firstborn by MJ Hastings; and don’t read E Lockhart’s The Pools on public transport, whatever you do

The writer on new novel Together for Christmas, the Omagh bombing, and writing Country Girl: The Musical

Childhood friends had a transformational impact on Irish folk music and supported various political and social causes

Teenage ache captured beautifully in author’s most assured work