As the summer music festival season gets underway, is there really enough money to go around for all these events and shows?
The view from Derry as the Other Voices show arrives in town as part of the City of Culture shenanigans
Listen to Shane Galvin’s four-part radio series on six decades of Irish musical tribes
New Orleans may hype its music and musicians, but isn’t it time that Dublin did something similar with its music makers?
There’s an insightful post-US presidential election piece by Jonathan Chait in the new current issue of New York magazine. Chait’s review of the campaign saw him concentrating on how social inequality had become the most promenient issue of the day …
The sound of the crowd at last week’s two-day Web Summit in Dublin? Sell, sell, sell. When you stand on the balcony overlooking the main room in the RDS and take it all in, the hubbub is impressive as a …
A few months ago, What Richard Did director Lenny Abrahamson was one of the guests at a Banter session at the Earagail Arts Festival which looked at how Irish culture has dealt with the move from boom to bust in …
It’s a blackout. This is what happens when you are a major drinks brand with a very large advertising and sponsorship budget and you want to brand a day as your own. Historically, days were named after saints, but this …
