From Ok Boomer to Wagatha Christie, here are this year’s Memes de la Crème

When Theroux met Savile’s once-underage ex, he thought, That’s what happened in the ’60s

International performers coming to Louth’s Stations of the Sun festival are put on the spot

‘Squeegee Paintings’, the new exhibition by the former head of painting at NCAD, is all about what's left out

West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Sebastian Heindl and Anthony Weeden

Plus songs you have to hear from Ross From Friends and Mick Pyro

Somadrone, aka Neil O'Connor, on an album that made him fall in love with noise

Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music

Liam O’Flynn obituary: born – September 15th, 1945; died – March 14th, 2018

Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told

Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery

At last, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is presenting ‘A celebration of contemporary Irish female composers’ at the NCH

A celebrated Swedish brass player, a master US percussionist and a Norwegian trumpeter

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have co-operated to push back the legislation by nine months

Ten years after I first heard of Wandelweiser, Louth Contemporary Music Society has brought it to Ireland

While no longer strictly in houses, the Great Music in Irish Houses festival has found good new homes

Rothko Chapel Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson, Sarah Rothenberg (piano)ECM New Series 481 17964

Tipperary Dance Project will bring a week-long flurry of international dance activity to the town

The composer Christian Wolff, of the New York School, was central to a memorable night in Louth

Classical Music round-up: Recitals by John O’Conor, Marino Formenti and Philip Glass ranged from the masterful to the radical

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 real question now is whether Elaine Kelly will get the opportunities to build her experience and repertoire

Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path

Are you heading to Enniskillen for the Happy Days Festival celebrating the life and work of Samuel Beckett? Here are our highlights, theatrical and otherwise

Social-media companies trick people into thinking they are in control

Alistair Spalding talks turning Sadler’s Wells theatre into a powerhouse of contemporary dance

Kent subverted consumerism in her art and annoyed the church with her ideas

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

At Dundalk Gaol, the experimental composer doesn’t flinch, allowing the problems to run their course

The composer long ago came to view the institution of the orchestra as alien to an American sensibility. Now he is bringing his experimental sounds to Dundalk Gaol

The international DJ thrives on creative chaos as he juggles performing, composing film soundtracks for Steven Soderbergh or Steve McQueen, and making and producing albums – his idea of a quiet life

Electronica royalty joins up with bell ringers – and somehow it works

Three companies – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Dance Company and CoisCéim Dance Theatre – are touring new work together. Is it an act that other arts sectors could or should follow?

Ciaran Berry confirms his status as a big beast among Irish poets

Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success

An exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves diverge

Concerts by Resurgam and the RTÉ NSO and what operas producers want to put on

The Red Bull Music Academy is where aspiring producers and musicians go to learn new tricks. Jim Carroll joins this year’s intake in New York City