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

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

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

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 / 23 hrs

Christmas shoppers on Dublin's Henry Street in December 1970

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

"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

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

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

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

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

Icarus, the little Dublin literary magazine which soared

Literature / 26 Nov

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

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

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

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

Is that you Leo?

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

Kylie Minogue / 12 Nov

"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

"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

Lights, cameras, tax relief

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

Heads will roll in Shakespeare's world

Shakespeare's world of deaths, corpses and ghosts

Shakespeare / 31 Oct

"Caistél ("castle"), cath ("battle"), ceol ("music"), bó ("cow") and the almost-inevitable fliuch ("wet") also appear"

A history of Ireland in 100 words

History / 11 Nov

Daniela Vega as Marina in A Fantastic Woman

How an Academy Award helped secure transgender rights in Chile

Is it time to shake up how artists get paid by Spotify and other streaming services?

Why 90% of your streaming cash goes to acts you may not like

Music business / 14 Oct

Why so serious? Joaquin Phoenix in Joker

What Joker tells us about victimisation, crime and discontent

Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders

Who were the real Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders / 05 Nov

"The 'Michaelmas goose' is traditionally roasted and eaten on that day"

Geese, daisies and debts: Michaelmas customs in Ireland of old

History / 27 Sep

"A complete knowledge of a language is not a pre-requisite to either speaking or writing it" Photo: Getty

Is learning another language really like eating a meal sideways?

Language / 30 Sep

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