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Behind the music - Good Friend

Northern Irish punk trio Good Friend have premiered the video for their Ramones-referencing single, Bonzo Goes To Belfast, and support US band The Mezingers on upcoming Irish dates. We asked Good Friend's vocalist Adam Carroll the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 08 Mar

Behind the music - Brandies Band

Belgian act Brandies Band have released their new album, Yeats to Music, on which they put the poems of the great Irish poet to melodies. We asked singer Kris Van den Branden the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 05 Sep 23

'I'd like to be Irish', says Miriam Margolyes

English actress Miriam Margolyes has said on Friday night's Late Late Show that she'd "like to be Irish".

Late Late Show • 28 Jan 23

Reevah: "The track highlights how we as humans can become detuned."

Behind the music - Reevah

Derry based Indie-pop artist Reevah has released her new single, Daydreamer. We asked her the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 08 Jun 21

When All is Ruin Once Again: poignant admonitory note about the Earth and its ecology

When All is Ruin Once Again: A poignant warning note

When All is Ruin Again draws near to poet WB Yeats' tower at Thoorballylee, cleaving close to a poetic vision of destiny, of generations passing, of a language threatened, with a subtly-pitched warning note about mankind's exploitation of the planet.

Reviews • 18 Apr 20

First Dates returns for its sixth series on Channel 4 tonight

First Dates returns and today's other TV picks

First Dates is back on our screens for more tentative romance, Inside the GPO goes behind the scenes of Ireland's iconic post office, while we're back in Newcastle for more shameless shenanigans in Geordie Shore.

Entertainment • 15 Mar 16

The Gloaming: three of the band are involved in Yeats anniversary events taking place in Dublin in September.

Music and poetry event to celebrate WB Yeats 2015

The Gloaming's fiddle-player Martin Hayes and the band's singer Iarla Ó Lionáird will take part in a Yeats 150th anniversary event at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Saturday, September 12.

Entertainment • 19 Aug 15

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker at New York's Town Hall Theatre Photos: James Higgins

Look! Parker and Broderick host WB Yeats NYC event

With celebrations to mark WB Yeats' 150th birthday taking place in Ireland this weekend, actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick earlier this week hosted an event at New York's Town Hall Theatre honouring the poet - see the photos here.

Entertainment • 13 Jun 15

RTÉ mark 150th anniversary of birth of WB Yeats

As Ireland prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats on June 13, RTÉ will feature a range of programming to celebrate the life of the poet.

Entertainment • 07 Jun 15

WB Yeats celebrated on film at the IFI

The IFI celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats (on June 13 1865) with Images from a Past Life: W.B Yeats on Film, a programme which includes a screening of a biographical ‘film poem’ from Alan Gilsenan.

Entertainment • 04 Jun 15

Shannon - Taking part in Bodies That Can Never Tire on Friday May 22 at Smock Alley

Boardwalk Empire star salutes Yeats in Dublin

Boardwalk Empire and Revolutionary Road star Michael Shannon will be in Dublin this week to take part in International Literature Festival Dublin's celebration of WB Yeats' 150th birthday.

Entertainment • 19 May 15

Gambon reads Yeats' poem The Song of Wandering Aengus in the video

Watch! Gambon stars in new Yeats2015 video

Actor Michael Gambon appears in a new video which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of poet WB Yeats and is part of the Yeats Day programme for 2015.

Entertainment • 30 Apr 15

Work of Seamus Heaney features in Ten Thousand Miles Away

Juilliard School collaborates with RIAM, The Lir

The Royal Irish Academy of Music and The Lir, Ireland's National Academy of Dramatic Art, will collaborate for the first time this March with the world-renowned Julliard School in New York.

Entertainment • 10 Mar 15

Great Yeats Birthday Party announced

The Great Yeats Birthday Party will take place in Lissadell House, Sligo on June 13 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet.

Entertainment • 20 Feb 15

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