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‘I found the therapy fun; you need more fun in your life when you suffer from chronic pain’
Paul Morley: ‘I wanted to write about Mozart like the NME in 1980’
Cult pop conceptualist on post-punk mythmaking and his discovery of classical music
The Mayo woman who became Italy’s favourite operatic diva
The opera singer refused the title of Papal Countess from Pope Pius XI anxious not to forget her humble roots as ‘Peggy of Mayo’
The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, acclaimed musician and composer, dies at 67
Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers
Dominic Cooper: ‘Working with ex-girlfriends? What's the alternative? Sulk in a corner?’
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Writing a melody is 'like walking on a graveyard. It’s full of dead composers'
Italian classical guitarist Oscar Ghiglia pulls no punches when it comes to his students or his peers
Dart passengers encouraged to play new piano at Pearse Station
Musical distraction from stresses of commuting life installed at busy Dublin platform
‘It’s moments where I’m like, this is happening, Jacob’
The LA dream has quickly become a reality for a young Dublin actor soon to be seen in ‘The Drummer and the Keeper’
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The actors occasionally get into physical fights with one another or get knocked unconscious by malfunctioning props
Jazz degree strikes a chord with students
Newpark Music Centre' s respected jazz programme, which offers a rich and broad musical education, will transfer to DCU in September
Repression and liberation: a coming-out for gay men and Irish step dance
Former Riverdancer Breandán de Gallaí examines identity, sexuality and ageing in his show Linger
Commemorating 1916: International concerts would show Ireland’s independence of spirit
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It’s a marvellous week for a screendance
Limerick is hosting a festival focused on the mixed media of film and movement
War baby
British actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fame
Waterford ‘Winterval’ festival hopes to attract 500,000 visitors
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