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The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon: ‘When my father died there was no great mourning, as I’d been doing it for a decade’
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NCH believed Israeli ambulance charity fundraiser posed security and reputational risks
Management at venue cancelled booking made by Alan Shatter for second time after being informed event would include October 7th dramatisation
Musician and composer Mary Halvorson: ‘I’m not trying to be weird. It’s just how I see things’
The American jazz guitarist, who is on her way to Ireland, may have the feel of a modern folk musician, but she can shred and distort like a death-metal band
The music of Makaya McCraven: Editing as composition, the studio as instrument
An innovator who pushes against received notions of jazz, the Chicago-based musician has been a key figure in a vibrant and revitalised international scene
‘I had lost one of my sisters. That changed everything’: Siobhán Cleary on composing Canto
Composer says bereavement ‘kind of changed everything about the writing of the piece’
Cancellation of Israeli charity fundraiser ‘an act of anti-Semitic censorship’, Shatter says
National Concert Hall accepted, revoked, reinstated and then cancelled booking by Irish branch of Magen David Adom, former minister says
New National Concert Hall boss: ‘I hope to be here for the grand reopening’
New chief executive Nigel Flegg hopes the NCH’s long-planned redevelopment will start in 2028 and transform it into a ‘cultural mother ship’
Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert: An epic journey into the unknown
The pianists Maki Namekawa and Thomas Enhco are re-creating the jazz star’s fabled improvisation at the National Concert Hall in Dublin
National Concert Hall, auto-enrolment pensions, and children’s mental health waiting lists
Early Edition: Ireland’s ageing swimming pools and PSNI trials ‘kids courts’ scheme
National Concert Hall embroiled in row over Alan Shatter fundraiser for Israeli charity
Event set to proceed, but only after NCH board talks and discussions with Irish diplomats and the Department of Culture
Office of the Planning Regulator faces overhaul amid concern over delays
Jack Chambers to brief Cabinet on plans aimed at speeding up critical infrastructure delivery
Jazz pianist Kris Davis: ‘I remember feeling at 13 that this is what I want to do forever’
‘Risk-taking is a comfortable space’ for the Canadian ‘one-woman music industry’, who makes her Irish bandleader debut at the NCH in March
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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