Bill Whelan

Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects

Uileann piper ‘bristled’ at being called a purist, funeral told

Readers were also interested in Michael Colgan, Vincent Hanley and maps of Ireland

Newly filed accounts also show rough year for Rough Magic as losses widen

She’s a former Mrs World, an opera singer, a film star, her husband is a billionaire

Kenny highlights initiative on Irish culture while in Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day visit

Clifden Community Arts Festival donates 40-year ‘sociological record’ of the arts

Heather Humphreys says €1m will go towards new Irish Arts Centre in Manhattan

Q&A with Michael Londra: ‘When I left, it wasn’t to run away but to run toward something’

To mark the first anniversary of the marriage-equality referendum, Charlie Bird asks gay people, and their relatives, how Ireland has changed for them.

Group calls for new protections for heritage sites following Disney’s use of Skellig Michael

Can the Music of Our Time series at the NCH remedy the weaknesses of the national broadcaster’s long-standing approach to new music?

Paul Muldoon lyrics criticise many aspects of Irish society such as ‘gombeen financiers’

When asked to write the text for a choral piece for the centenary of the Rising, I was determined not to gloss over the past or present a bogusly upbeat future

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards