Donal Dineen: On My Culture Radar

The presenter on Kevin Barry’s magnificence, Eamonn Doyle’s photography, and his admiration of Jessie Buckley

Electric Picnic: Final stage times announced

Here are the Salty Dog, Soundome, Casa Bacardi, Comedy, Jerry Fish and Trenchtown lineups

Electric Picnic stage times: here’s the exclusive first look

Stage times for the Main, Body and Soul, Rankin’s Wood and Other Voices stages

Everything you need to know about Another Love Story

A tiny capacity, a big heart, a Shift Shack – is this Ireland’s most intimate festival?

Body and Soul stage times

Every stage, every band, every slot for this weekend’s festival

Simma Down: A social club makes the leap to sustainable festival

In the How Music Works series, Niall Byrne talks to people about their work in music. This week, social club, promoters and festival organisers Sim Simma

The Irish Times joins Body and Soul festival on the Wonderlust stage

The Irish Times will be partnering with the festival on Saturday with a programme of talks and debates

Greece letter: Walking line between tradition and modernity

Must a small nation loosen grip of the past in order to embrace benefits of the future?

Cheap seats are the future of theatre

Here’s six things we learned at Galway’s arts festivals, including some insights from the Abbey Theatre’s new co-director

‘Uilleann pipes make a comprehensive argument for their own majesty’

Donal Dineen explores the ‘staggering’ sound of the traditional instrument, with the help of rich visuals

Radio: Grim week has tempers rising on ‘Liveline’

Review: ‘The Anton Savage Show’, ‘Morning Ireland’, ‘Today with Sean O’Rourke’, ‘Liveline’, ‘Drama on One: 100’

St Patricks Day cultural programme ‘I Love My City’ launched

Colm Meaney interview at screening of The Snapper in Rotunda among scheduled events

Donal Dineen’s best music of 2014

Our Sunken Treasure columnist picks his favourite cuts and acts from the year in music

Here comes Somerville: the atmospheric sounds of a shy talent

Galway native Maria Somerville might be shy in person, but her music carries a deliberate intent

On The Record: U2 and Apple do shock and awe, others do it better

Never nind the hype, here are some examples of music and brands working well together

Hélio Oiticica: a Brazilian iconoclast who burst out of art’s frame

A retrospective of the late artist illuminates his remarkable artistic evolution

Body & Soul reviews: Sun shines bright on stellar line-up

John Grant, Gary Numan, Goldfrapp and Jon Hopkins delight festival crowd

Strong constitution: new ideas for Bunreacht na hÉireann

Eight people involved in the Irish arts have come up with eight ideas for a new Irish Constitution, from protecting artists from poverty to making sure the best artists get funded and supported

This Is How We Fly

Valentia Isle: the little festival that could

Tired of Electric Picnic articles? Tough luck

The Stradbally festival will be around for another decade at least, because once you’ve experienced it it’s hard to leave

Festival Fit: Falling and Crashing in Kilkenny, and Fair of Muff in Cavan

Sounds like a lewd Shakespearean compliment you’d hear at Kilkenny Arts Festival, but there really is a Fair of Muff in Co Cavan, and good vintage wireless coverage at Moynalty Steam Threshing Festival

Sea Sessions and Body & Soul

Mark Graham sees alcohol in a whole new light

Nicolas Jaar: The boy in the bubble heads to Body and Soul

Body & Soul headliner Nicolas Jaar makes music like no-one else – and he has the prism to prove it

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