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Cork’s most famous libertine about to make musical history
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European culture: strength in diversity
Our common cultural heritage should not be forgotten in seeking things to bind Europe together
Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’
The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older
Irish writers pick their favourite pieces of music
From traditional tunes to the magic of Mozart, some Irish writers name their favourite tunes, ahead of a concert featuring their picks at the Royal Irish Academy of Music
Excerpt from novel “Æther” concerning Don Giovanni, Lady Violet Holloway’s Diary – by Cian Morey, age 15
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, Bishopstown, Co Cork
Opera an’ bukes: Roddy Doyle to create new version of Don Giovanni
Dublin Theatre Festival announces one of next year’s highlights as it takes a bow for 2015
Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic look to the future
Gilbert, conductor of the New York orchestra, will step down in 2017 after an innovative eight-season tenure that brought contemporary music to the fore. So, what next?
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From the worth-saving-for to the absolutely unaffordable, 10 extravagant trips worth dreaming about
‘Optimism in the face of brutality’: a great opera about the Great War
The Wexford-bound Silent Night explores the horror of war through the prism of the unofficial Christmas Eve truce of 1914. Its composer and librettist talk about the making of a Pulitzer Prize winner
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