Barry Roche: The Cork tie that binds – bred in the bone
Come what may on Sunday, we are Cork and we are back
The greatest year for music was the year you came of age
Donald Clarke: You can’t beat 1981. Others will argue for 1967, 1989, 1995 or 2020. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong
New ballad recalls heroism of English fire chief during Burning of Cork
Alfred Hutson sought to battle blaze as drunken Auxiliaries shot at fire crews 100 years ago
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
Why Joan Shelley is ‘focusing in on the detail of our weirdnesses’
The main influence for Shelley’s fifth album was the time and space she was in
The New Mendicants – the indie supergroup that begs to differ
Indie kingpins Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub pool their creative resources for a low-budget side project that’s yielding good returns
14 years after her death, wishin’ and hopin’ for the real Dusty on screen
Films and a musicial about Dusty Springfield jockeying for position
How Kevin Macdonald found his fallout girl in Saoirse Ronan
At first, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald had doubts about casting Saoirse Ronan in the nuclear romance How I Live Now, but he quickly revised his opinion – “She’s the finest actor I have ever worked with”
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview
What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year
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