Ailís Ní Ríain: ‘Words and music are things we do against all better judgment’
Composer on the challenges of her latest work and the transformative effect of Zoom
Bach in season: This week’s classical music highlights
NCH hosts concerts by Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki and Malcolm Proud
The best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
New Music Dublin, Hugh Tinney, RTÉ NSO/Michail Jurowski
The best classical music to see this week
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
Bringing Irish theatre to the masses in London
Omnibus Theatre’s Irish Season celebrates community, reconciliation and belonging
‘Brendan Kennelly’s words raised my spirits’
The Time of My Life: A poet’s work provides uplift and inspiration to a composer
Was the demise of the Celtic Tiger the saviour of Irish theatre?
New anthology explores how playwrights responded to a country - and a theatre - in crisis
Desolate Heaven
This play about young carers in the Ireland of 1978 demands a psychological engagement
Sometimes there’s no need to blow your own trumpet
Publicity can be misleading, as in the case of a fine trumpeter
Lack of a finale and a need to grow
Mary Leyland reviews Exit Strategy and The Tallest Man in the World playing as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival
Cork Midsummer brings it all back home
This year’s Cork Midsummer Festival puts the city on stage. So who will be left to watch it, and will it amount to more than the sum of its parts?
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