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Something for the Weekend: Linda Buckley's cultural picks

For this year's Music in Monkstown festival, celebrated Corkonian composer Linda Buckley will premiere a new work commissioned by the festival, Voix Enchantée for clarinet and piano.

Something For The Weekend • 17 Sep

Something for the Weekend: May Kay's cultural picks

MayKay is a singer, songwriter, TV presenter, and frontwoman of Fight Like Apes...

Something For The Weekend • 10 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Theo Dorgan's cultural picks

Celebrated poet, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator and broadcaster Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953.

Something For The Weekend • 04 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Mick Harvey's cultural picks

It's always a pleasure to welcome a right and proper music legend to these pages - and make no mistake, Mick Harvey is a legend.

Something For The Weekend • 03 Sep

Something for the Weekend: The Wild Geeze's cultural picks

If you're into wild Irish women, dark humour, striptease, enchanting harmonies, vagina puppets and talk of dismantling the agricultural patriarchy, then The Wild Geeze are definitely for you!

Something For The Weekend • 05 Sep

Something for the Weekend: Qbanaa's cultural picks

Cuban-Irish artist Qbanaa is one of the acts performing at Creativity on Tap: Where Bold Ideas Meet Iconic Spaces, an eclectic series of music and comedy events at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival.

Something For The Weekend • 28 Aug

Something for the Weekend: Alannah Thornburgh's cultural picks

Alannah Thornburgh is an award-winning instrumentalist and composer from the west of Ireland with a focus on traditional Irish harp.

Something For The Weekend • 30 Jul

Something for the Weekend: Rose Keating's cultural picks

Oddbody, the debut collection from Waterford author Rose Keating is a collection of ten bold, surreal and unsettling short stories...

Something For The Weekend • 24 Jul

Something for the Weekend: Guy Barker's cultural picks

Guy Barker is a trumpet player, bandleader, composer and one of the most sought-after arrangers of today – he's also an Associate Artist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Something For The Weekend • 23 Jul

Something For The Weekend – Luke Murphy's cultural picks

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy founded Attic Projects in 2014 as an umbrella for his various independent projects in dance, film and theatre.

Something For The Weekend • 16 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Marty Breen's cultural picks

Marty Breen is the creator and star of BITCH, an 'explosion of theatrical chaos' that combines cabaret, stand-up and drag, with memorable results.

Something For The Weekend • 11 Jul

Something For The Weekend – Patrick Bergin's cultural picks

Over the past four decades, actor Patrick Bergin has been a welcome fixture on screens big and small...

Something For The Weekend • 09 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Séimí Campbell's cultural picks

Donegal-born director Séimí Campbell is a rising star in the theatre world, with a particular focus on musical theatre - he's currently developing a stage version of Cartoon Saloon's Oscar nominated Song Of The Sea.

Something For The Weekend • 04 Jul

Something For The Weekend: Aidan McArdle's cultural picks

Dubliner Aidan McArdle gained acclaim portraying figures like Dudley Moore, Albert Einstein and Igor Stravinsky in a series of acclaimed small-screen biopics.

Something For The Weekend • 25 Jun

Something For The Weekend: Oisin Fagan's cultural picks

Oisin's new novel, Eden's Shore, is a bold and inventive work that explores greed, love and power in an imagined South America at the close of the 18th century.

Something For The Weekend • 12 Jun

Something For The Weekend – Anna Carey's cultural picks

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands...

Something For The Weekend • 11 Jun

Something For The Weekend – Lynton Stephens' cultural picks

Linton Stephens is a renowned bassoonist and interim Artistic Director with Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first professional orchestra to be made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians.

Something For The Weekend • 04 Jun

Folk legend Peggy Seeger comes to Ireland this June (Pic: Laura Page)

Something For The Weekend: Peggy Seeger's cultural picks

We're honoured to welcome a true music legend to these pages...

Something For The Weekend • 29 May

Guitarist and composer Dave Flynn (Hayley Theyers)

Something For The Weekend: Dave Flynn's cultural picks

Guitarist and composer Dave Flynn offers a fresh perspective on the Celtic guitar genre with his new album Celtic Guitar Master, released this month.

Something For The Weekend • 28 May

Composer and performer Sarah Davachi (Pic: Sean McCann)

Something For The Weekend: Sarah Davachi's cultural picks

Sarah Davachi is an acclaimed Canadian composer and performer of electroacoustic and minimalist music.

Something For The Weekend • 21 May

Something for the Weekend: Adam Matthews' cultural picks

Adam Matthews is the vocalist with rising Dublin pop electro duo Phoeno, who have just released their latest single, Safety.

Something For The Weekend • 14 May

Something For The Weekend – Keeley Forsyth's cultural picks

Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England.

Something For The Weekend • 10 May

Mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain (Pic: Miriam Kaczor)

Something for the Weekend: Gemma Ní Bhriain cultural picks

Dublin-born mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain is busy performing both at home and across Europe...

Something For The Weekend • 30 Apr

Gradam Ceoil TG4 Ceoltóir na Bliana 2025 Siobhán Peoples (Pic: Bryan Brophy)

Something for the Weekend: Siobhan Peoples' cultural picks

Fiddler Siobhán Peoples from Ennis, County Clare, has been immersed in traditional music all her life...

Something For The Weekend • 23 Apr

Something for the Weekend: Ralph McTell's cultural picks

Legendary British singer-songwriter Ralph McTell will embark on his most extensive Irish tour in 2025, playing 20 shows over four weeks from 24th April to 18th May.

Something For The Weekend • 16 Apr