Riverdance composer Bill Whelan: ‘I think we forget how important ritual is, and we’re losing it’
Composer, arranger and performer on Riverdance’s effect on Ireland, contemporary trad music, AI and facing down eternity
Composer, arranger and performer on Riverdance’s effect on Ireland, contemporary trad music, AI and facing down eternity
A colourful testament to an extraordinary life that helped shape and soundtrack it
The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello Concerto
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
We asked leading experts for changes that could improve how we live
Michael Flatley becomes an impressively antlered elk in a new animated film based on the hit show
The Mission Sessions is the first full-length album from Those Nervous Animals
President Higgins pays tribute to author and artist who died two weeks after his wife Mairéad
Third album from The Frames’ man fuses traditional sources and contemporary music with ease
Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy
Aspiring stars must submit an audition tape by Friday for a chance to perform in the show
Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects
Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told
Readers were also interested in Michael Colgan, Vincent Hanley and maps of Ireland
Newly filed accounts also show rough year for Rough Magic as losses widen
She’s a former Mrs World, an opera singer, a film star, her husband is a billionaire
Kenny highlights initiative on Irish culture while in Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day visit
Clifden Community Arts Festival donates 40-year ‘sociological record’ of the arts
Heather Humphreys says €1m will go towards new Irish Arts Centre in Manhattan
Q&A with Michael Londra: ‘When I left, it wasn’t to run away but to run toward something’
To mark the first anniversary of the marriage-equality referendum, Charlie Bird asks gay people, and their relatives, how Ireland has changed for them.
Group calls for new protections for heritage sites following Disney’s use of Skellig Michael
Can the Music of Our Time series at the NCH remedy the weaknesses of the national broadcaster’s long-standing approach to new music?
Paul Muldoon lyrics criticise many aspects of Irish society such as ‘gombeen financiers’
When asked to write the text for a choral piece for the centenary of the Rising, I was determined not to gloss over the past or present a bogusly upbeat future
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Stars pay tribute as famous theatre district prepares to dim its lights for Irish playwright
This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming
The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage
Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either
The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience
Original features remain in this renovated period property, on the market for €3.2m
Paul McGuinness has turned to TV, joining forces with John Banville and Neil Jordan to make a crime series based on the French Riviera
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices