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The Irish Times’ Culture podcast

This week’s Irish Times’ Culture Podcast was hosted and presented by arts editor Shane Hegarty and features Hugh Linehan, Sinead Gleeson and myself yakking about Queen Elizabeth, Barack Obama, Irish media coverage of these visits, Primavera and summer festivals. Have …

Introducing: the Irish Times Culture Podcast

The very first Irish Times Culture Podcast was hosted and presented by arts editor Shane Hegarty and featured Fintan O’Toole, Rosita Boland and myself yakking about such subjects as Record Store Day, Aosdana and a history of Ireland in 100 …

What shops have to do when their products go digital

Some of you may already have read my piece from Saturday’s Irish Times about how stores selling books and music will have to find new ways to attract customers through the doors if they are going to survive in an …

2010, the cultural review

It’s (nearly) the end of the year as we know it so how do you feel? Next week in The Irish Times, we’ll be rounding up the cultural highs and lows, hits and misses, ups and downs of 2010 and …

This week in The Ticket – and your plugs

Villagers: Conor O’Brien talks about the maddest year of his life as Villagers went from local heroes to global Villagers and are now a band even German radio DJs are now writing songs for. Our favourite Irish acts: Ticket music …

From the editor’s desk…

Two great posts over at irishtimes.com editor Hugh Linehan’s blog this weather. The first asks readers for their suggestions to improve commenting, debating and all-round interactivity on the site and there’s already been a ton of comments about this. The …

Why Vella’s Cauliflowers are the best band in the world…ever

Today in the newspaper, a bunch of writers have selected their dream bands, their musical five-a-sides, so to speak. The rules for selection were simple: one front person, drummer and bass player and two others; No more than two dead …

The Best of British – the 50 Best British Acts Right Now

Oh yes, it’s another one of these list yokes which I know you OTR readers love so much. In The Ticket tomorrow, we will be counting down the 50 Best British Acts Right Now. The list was compiled by Lauren …