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Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020
The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway
The singer-songwriter John Smith on the album that taught him less is more
Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ
This week, Fight Like Apes called it a day. I first discovered them in the Róisín Dubh in Galway and nothing was ever quite the same
In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism
Bronze tribute to Thin Lizzy frontman previously damaged in 2013 by vandals
Who are the acts to watch in 2015? And how did our predictions for last year fare? We asked some music industry insiders to look into their tea leaves and make some predictions
Megahits from Game of Thrones to the Marvel universe are suffused in myth; so where are the echoes of Irish myth in contemporary culture? It turns out we’re surrounded by the stuff
Now that Ó Drónaí has rediscovered his love for pop music, the days of regarding him as just the ‘lad with the fiddle’ are well and truly over. He talks about his indie-trad-electro-math-rock progression and why the new album will be ‘pop from tip to toe’
Irish audiences have embraced John Grant’s brave and beautiful anti-love songs. Call it collective atonement for Garth Brooks
Storytelling sessions in a London park inspired a contemporary version of Deirdre of the Sorrows
Homes evacuated in Limerick as tidal swells hit, west sweeping away coastal defences
Sax maestro Jake Clemons (nephew of the late Clarence) is looking forward to his solo trek around Ireland. He might even get a bit of surfing in, he tells Jim Carroll
Huge crowd turns out for unveiling of restored statue of Thin Lizzy legend
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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