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In The Picture: Covid in Madrid - Karl Clarke's photo diary

Photographer and creative Karl Clarke shares a selection from his Madrid photo diaries, captured over the last year, as the city struggled to emerge from …

visual arts • 20 Feb 21

The Anatomy of Hope - artist Rita Duffy on her new animation

visual arts • 03 Feb 21

Bringing It All Back Home - Through the Window

A series of short-form digital pieces created by a panel of theatre makers, musicians and writers who engaged with residents in Nursing Homes and Care …

Arts Council • 18 Dec 20

Mobile Music Machine spreads the music love

Mobile Music Machine have produced a long-form feature film. Geraldine Peregrine, cellist and founder of Mobile Music Machine, writes about the classical music infinitive

Mobile Music Machine • 08 Dec 20

Stanley Townsend in Solar Bones, presented at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Culture and The Next Normal

On a traffic island in the middle of Dublin's O'Connell Street, Robbie O'Connor is telling me a story...

The Next Normal • 01 Oct 20

Roxanna Nic Liam (centre) is bringing Hell Hath No Fury to axis Ballymun

#AxisBootleg - Mark O'Brien on keeping theatre alive

'Our tribe is vast. What we can achieve together right now can have long-reaching effects.' Mark O'Brien, Artistic Director of axis Ballymun, writes for Culture …

Theatre • 16 Sep 20

Liz Roche's WRoNGHEADED premiered at Dublin Dance Festival in 2018.

National Campaign for the Arts calls for increased support

The National Campaign for the Arts has said that almost 90% of its members are living with financial insecurity, with arts organisations reporting losses of …

Culture • 14 Sep 20

Mirror Pavilion - John Gerrard's artwork is a centrepiece of this year's Galway International Arts Festival: Autumn Edition

Autumn Edition - Galway International Arts Festival get creative

Galway International Arts Festival Chief Executive John Crumlish writes for Culture about the festival's Autumn Edition, created in response to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, incorporatin …

Festivals • 08 Sep 20

Emma Donoghue (photo Mark Raynes Roberts)

Book review: The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue

The new novel from acclaimed Room author Emma Donoghue follows nurse Julia Power as she works in a maternity ward in Dublin, in 1918, at …

Books • 18 Aug 20

Charlie Bonner, Seamus O'Rourke, Arthur Riordan & Malcolm Adams in Jimmy Murphy's Kings Of The Kilburn High Road

Holding on - Jimmy Murphy on Irish theatre in crisis

'Without an audience, theatre is dead...' Playwright Jimmy Murphy writes for Culture about the challenges facing theatre in the coming months, as a result of …

opinion • 13 Aug 20

All the fun of the Fleadh: A scene from last year's event

RTÉ and Comhaltas put the call out for Virtual Fleadh

With many major events across the country cancelled this year due to Covid-19, Irish people everywhere have been collaborating to create virtual and online experiences …

Virtual Fleadh • 04 Aug 20

A Love Lost - notes on a summer without festivals

Like many festivals this summer, Another Love Story has fallen victim to the complications of COVID 19 and while the organisers are already planning ahead …

Festivals • 13 Aug 20

The Lost Lace project - artists commemorate lives lost to Covid

Review: David McCullagh on Power, Politics and Ireland's Pandemic

10 moments that defined lockdown in Ireland

News from Under a Coat Stand by Carole Coleman - read an extract

The first 100 days: Carole Coleman on her Lockdown Diaries

Mike Ryan - meet the Irishman at the World Health Organization

The Ethical Vaccine with AstraZeneca co-designer Dr Teresa Lambe

Will a pandemic allow us to be healthier in the future?

What were we like? Behavioural Science and COVID-19 in Ireland

Morning Ireland - frustration & disappointment in events industry

Paying it forward: The Irish-Navajo gift exchange, one year on

In These Strange Times - Science Gallery Dublin's new podcast

Bookselling Ireland calls on government to reopen bookshops