At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Deirdre Kinahan’s play follows an Irishman whose enlistment in the British army begins a life of loneliness and suffering

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music

The shamanic visionary continues to reinvent his back catalogue through haunting duets and a prowling, punky spirit

On record, the musician’s recent material can feel too keen to radiate positivity. Live, however, the songs are infectiously fun

Just like Botox, the AI experience is frictionless, without a single wrinkle or jagged edge

For The Whiteheaded Boy, at the Abbey, theatre director Ryan is drawing on the anarchic spirit of her Chicago past

The Australian contemporary circus troupe are on their way to Cork Midsummer Festival. What’s it like to be on the road 300 days a year?

Doja Cat proves herself a magnetic performer, dancing almost nonstop in Dublin’s 3Arena

Theatre: Neill Fleming evokes real fear in Stewart Roche’s intricate, intellectually daring tale for our confused and troubling times

Harry Butler’s complex play takes aim at therapy talk, consent, the politics of naming harm, and the perils of the blame game

Theatre: Michael James Ford, Mark O’Regan and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh star in this revival of Barry McKinley’s play

Your guide to live music for May, June, July and August in 2026 from CMAT, Forbidden Fruit, Fontaines DC, The Cure to Electric Picnic

Theatre: Mai Ishikawa stars in Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s play about a once famous Hong Kong actor who has withdrawn from public life

A healthy ego can survive contact with the world. A fragile ego must wrap itself in protective layers