Blogs »
- New Music – Splashh, Decentfolk, Sunless 97Jim Carroll | On The Record »Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The...
- A day of Resnais, Hong Sang-soo and Chris O’Dowd.Donald Clarke | Screenwriter »Honestly. Some of the people here. If I may paraphrase John Gielgud in Arthur, one usually has to...
- Why getting stuck into a good book can be odd for your healthLaurence Mackin | Pursued by a Bear »Researchers at Ohio State University have uncovered a vital bit of truth that was already known to...
- Jesuits seek GaeilgeoirPól Ó Muirí | Ultach »The Society of Jesus in Dublin are looking to recruit an Irish-speaking editorial...
Art & Design »
'Radharc' - the best view in New YorkAn exhibition by six contemporary Irish painters on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan offers a perfect platform for their work – and especially so given there’s also a hot attraction across the road at the Met, writes SINEAD GLEESON
Artistic royalty comes to the castleLismore Castle Arts wants to position itself on the international arts scene – it’s latest show moves it closer
Film »
Kerouac's road trip too far‘On The Road’ perfectly recreates the frustration of being trapped in a car with stoners, while ‘Holy Motors’ does to film what Jackson Pollock did to canvas.
Doing Cannes, Midlands styleDARN YOU, Chris O’Dowd. You’ve brought the midlands weather with you. I meet the actor and comic – a native of Boyle, Co Roscommon – in a beachside tent that is struggling to resist a torrential downpour. Waves crash mean-spiritedly on the shore. Wind worries the tent-flaps. This is not how Cannes looks on the postcards.
Stage »
- Stewart Lee
Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, Galway
Dancing duels of place and cultureSeveral dancers at this year’s Dublin Dance Festival are exploring the no-man’s-land between where they come from and where they call home
Treibh »
- Namia
CROBHINGNE: IN NAMIA tugtar airgead duit má tá tú bancbhriste.
13 iarratas ar phacáiste tacaíochta teanga Roinn na GaeltachtaTRÍ CINN déag d’iarratais atá faighte ag Roinn na Gaeltachta go dtí seo ar an bpacáiste tacaíochta teanga do thuismitheoirí a d’fhógair Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta mí ó shin, a scríobhann Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí.
Music »
What hits the high notes for juries?Nikolay Khozyainov was a more than worthy winner of the Dublin International Piano Competition, but what factors can influence the decisions of music-competition juries, asks MICHAEL DERVAN
- Riverdance: The Music of Bill Whelan
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Books »
BookedBusiness thinking between the covers
Revolutionary road: the 1916 leadersBIOGRAPHY: Michael Mallin By Brian Hughes The O’Brien Press, 256pp €11.99. Joseph Plunkett By Honor Ó Brolcháin The O’Brien Press, 431pp €11.99. James Connolly By Lorcan Collins The O’Brien Press, 352pp €11.99.
Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environmentHunt Museum
A history of Ireland in 100 objectsIn 1950, in the course of rebuilding works on an old house in Summerhill in Co Meath, this remarkable stone was found behind a blocked doorway. It had been in a window recess of a secret sealed-up chamber. It is a rough piece of sandstone.
