Fanfare to Boston Common Man – Frank McNally on the first martyrs of the American Revolution
An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishman’s Diary
The Homeland star talks about writing music, praying with his dog and acting at 69
A Thing I Cannot Name is a collaboration between the two that explores ugly side of desire
An Irishman’s Diary
Even with a narrow Joe Biden victory there will be no neat resolution
US Politics: Parallels between capable socialist senator and Jeremy Corbyn do not ring true
US president’s legal team tries to dismiss revelations in book by former national security adviser
US Politics: In a country with no hopes to dash, the president cannot disappoint people
John Adams made victims take Polaroid pictures of themselves as he molested them
Renowned Axminster Carpets became linked with JD Wetherspoon’s 900-strong pub chain
US president told evangelical leaders Democrats will ‘overturn everything we’ve done’
Proposal for €250m complex will take account of port’s heritage, says Kevin O’Sullivan
Spokesman claims proposal for 40-storey skyscraper on Lapps Island is ‘ludicrous’
Lauma Skride, UO/Olari Elts – Ailish Tynan (soprano), ICO/Katherine Hunka (violin)
Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience
Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise
Patrick Freyne looks at how US presidents have been sworn in across the centuries
Heirlooms and oranges, an all-white tree and introducing blue : designers and curators reveal the looks they like at home
Ennio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a little
Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music
Times have been hard, but the decision to cut funding to three musical organisations is unnecessarily damaging
New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?
It’s been a busy year for the winners of last year’s competition with sales up in most cases and a lot of good will from customers
A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers
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
John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas
Composer John Adams ‘didn’t really know’ what he was doing when he wrote his first opera – that hasn’t stopped ‘Nixon in China’, which does exactly what it says on its musical tin, travelling around the world
New York’s Attacca Quartet are in Ireland to play the ‘humorous’ music of John Adams. The four friends talk about their complicated relationship
Several key vacancies persist at the top of RTÉ’s performing groups, and one man is currently covering three roles
Scratching your head for what to get the interioristas in your life as the festive season gets into full swing? Here’s a few ideas on the home front
Opinion: Manning may join Thompson, Parks and Luther King in pantheon of heroes
Opinion: Classical theorists saw it as a state in which laws, not men, were paramount
Dublin International Piano Festival opened with an intimate look at – and inside – the instrument
The bowing-out of one of RTÉ’s most experienced musical hands is a bombshell
Concerts by Resurgam and the RTÉ NSO and what operas producers want to put on
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is failing to engage with modern music, and this needs to change
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices