Tickets for the January National Concert Hall gig, which features a stellar line-up, go on sale this Friday

Also playing are God is an Astronaut, Sylvan Esso, Rag’n’Bone Man, while BellX1’s Paul Noonan goes solo

New director Selina Cartmell announces first programme, after Michael Colgan exits, stage left

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

The Women’s Podcast: Extracts from Repeal -A Night in the Key of 8 a fundraiser for the ‘repeal project’ include poetry by Una Mullally and FeliSpeaks

The Belgian songwriter’s caustic social criticism is at the heart of the Gate Theatre production

Dublin Theatre Festival: Irish poems set to music beg the question - why?

The new director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival high hopes for her role leading this ‘explosion of the arts’ - including the Funniest Joke of the Fringe

The cultural programming in Ireland’s art galleries is focused on what it means to be a citizen in today’s connected world

The city’s main arts festival has helped transform a suburb. With a changing of the guard can it also alter its own identity?

HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week

Dramatic impetus character driven while Rising’s familiar protagonists on sidelines

Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival

The hedonistic years and a near-death experience took their toll on Marc Almond, but he remains productive and still has a knack for reimagining others’ songs

In a new column called How Music Works, Niall Byrne talks to those who make a living in the Irish music industry, who shape the musical landscape and who build up the country’s musical reputation, at home and abroad. This week, manager, agent, producer Úna Molloy

From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you

'We're like two old slippers'

Summer dinner party launches paperback edition of Clodagh McKenna title

Great theatre tends to give suicide a power and a glamour it must not be given in society. With ‘Four Last Things’, Lisa Tierney-Keogh attempts to make a play about a suicide that does not give the act meaning and drama but still works as theatre

Camille O’Sullivan gives the wronged Lucrece a powerful voice as Shakespeare’s text is condensed into 12 songs

Line-up includes new plays by Frank McGuinness and Eugene O’Neill, and a fresh translation of The Threepenny Opera