The ‘godfather of Irish electronica’ has reissued his magnum opus for its 25th anniversary. It’s a highlight of a career seeded when he asked his parents for a piano
Experimental composer and guitarist Michael Pisaro-Liu’s 2013 work, asleep, wind, voice, poe gets its Irish premiere this month
Irish music in the 1980s wasn’t all U2, as this collection of improvised electronica proves
The 1982 debut from the composer and singer is still challenging
Previous saoithe have included Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Brian Friel, and Doyle believes that Ireland’s composers are up there with our literary greats
Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney
NSO sub-season duplicates previous efforts and focuses too much on British connections
Hot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun
The home of Nicky Byrne, Jenny Greene and Eoghan McDermott has some unlikely fans
Ireland’s Tombeau to Debussy includes new pieces from seven Irish composers and a trio of NCH concerts
Bloom, Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit, Vantastival, Women’s Mini Marathon and more
Four recession survivors advise on how to keep your head in good times and bad
The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history
Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
A leading light of the Irish avant-garde conjures up her father’s wartime experiences
Impressive singing from a versatile cast is supported by a recorded Roger Doyle score
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti delivered everything you could have asked for
Sorrow and loss continue to hold us in greater thrall than the idea of a new order in the offing
Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’
Classical music round-up: The young ensemble played Messiaen’s dark music – which he composed as a POW – in near-darkness
Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business
Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success
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
