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"If I finish a book per week for the rest of my life, there won't be enough time to read all that I aspire to."

5 great memoirs about health

Some happy customers disembark from the Viking Splash Tour

How blood-thirsty Vikings became the stars of Irish tourism

Culture / 09 Jan

Teresa Deevy. Photo: Maynooth University Archive

Teresa Deevey: the overlooked Irish playwright

Theatre / 09 Jan

"Tour dates get missed, gear gets impounded, insurance becomes invalid and the administrative costs escalate. For many smaller acts, it's just not worth it". Photo: Mick Hutson/Redferns via Getty Images

Does Brexit mean trouble for live music and touring bands?

Brexit / 06 Jan

"The custom was that women made social calls to the homes of their friends and neighbours and enjoyed tea and the last of the Christmas cake". Photo: George Marks/Getty Images

The roots and traditions of Nollaig na mBan

Brainstorm / 06 Jan

Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) with cat in The Godfather. The cat was a stray Francis Ford Coppola found on the lot at Paramount Studios.

A short history of cats on screen

Cats / 19 Dec 19

Members of the 501st Garrison Ireland Legion on patrol in Portmagee, Co Kerry during the May the Fourth Star Wars festival. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

How John Williams created Star Wars' iconic sound

Star Wars / 17 Dec 19

Are you ready for us, Nano?

Would Nano Nagle have expelled the Young Offenders from school?

The Young Offenders / 16 Dec 19

Home for the Christmas with James Stewart, Donna Reed) and Karolyn Grimes

Why It's A Wonderful Life is still a winner today

Film / 12 Dec 19

Soon to be a very rare sight: Coldplay's Chris Martin onstage in 2017

Will many acts follow Coldplay's lead when it comes to touring?

Climate Change / 11 Dec 19

When all your pals on the 12 Pubs procession decide to dress the same. Photo: Kena Betancur AFP/Getty Images

The quasi-religious rites and rituals of the 12 Pubs

12 Pubs of Christmas / 12 Dec 19

Christmas shoppers on Dublin's Henry Street in December 1970

Is it Christmas yet? How music makes the cash registers ring

Music / 11 Dec 19

"No-one has ever captured the Irish better than James Joyce"

What James Joyce's bones and house tell us about Irish culture

James Joyce / 06 Dec 19

Irish K-Pop star Sodem Solana who was the Grand Prize Winner at the World K-Pop Festival

The Irish angle to the rise and rise of K-Pop

K Pop / 04 Dec 19

A view of the Sir Henrys@UCC Library exhibition. Photo: Tomás Tyner

How to turn the story of a music venue into cultural heritage

Culture / 03 Dec 19

France's Djibril Sidibé and Kylian Mbappe get in the mood before the 2018 World Cup final. Photo: Franck Fife/AFP/ Getty Images

How music helps footballers become pitch perfect

Psychology / 25 Nov 19

Eavan Boland was one of the contributors to Icarus in the 1960s

Icarus, the little Dublin literary magazine which soared

Literature / 26 Nov 19

Lana Del Rey: "call her Doris Doomsday" Photo: Darren Gerrish/BFC/Getty Images

Songs for the end of the world: pop music and climate change

Climate Change / 22 Nov 19

Helen McCrory as Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders: "she dresses to kill (no pun intended) and makes the viewers rethink the term power dressing, all of this contributing to her iconic character."

Why Polly Gray from Peaky Blinders is a feminist icon

Peaky Blinders / 21 Nov 19

Derry women protesting in September 1976. Photo: Michel Artault Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

How The Long Note tells the histories of the women of Derry

Culture / 19 Nov 19

Distant reading allows us to analyse hundreds or thousands of texts that no individual could read within the span of a lifetime Photo: Getty Images

What is distant reading?

Literature / 14 Nov 19

Is that you Leo?

I should be so lucky: doing the academic locomotion with Kylie

Kylie Minogue / 12 Nov 19

"The portrayal of the two young teenagers from the northside of Cork City parallels several classical criminological theories that explain young people's transgressive behaviour"

Here's what criminologists make of The Young Offenders

The Young Offenders / 11 Nov 19

"Music has the ability to move us and to transform our mood, depending on the individual and the context in which it is listened." Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Music still sounds better with you

Music / 08 Nov 19

Lights, cameras, tax relief

Time for a close-up on Section 481's impact on Irish film culture

Film / 07 Nov 19

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