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

Stars pay tribute as famous theatre district prepares to dim its lights for Irish playwright

This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming

The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage

Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

Original features remain in this renovated period property, on the market for €3.2m

Paul McGuinness has turned to TV, joining forces with John Banville and Neil Jordan to make a crime series based on the French Riviera

Fortune’s Wheel tells the story of a celebrated incident in Fairview in 1951

Balladeer was ‘effervescent . . . bubbling over with good humour’

There’s been a flurry of activity on this premium road in Rathgar - a huge turnover of stock, a swathe of renovations and now building has begun on two new housing schemes

Many children lose interest in learning music when they reach their teenage years. The solution lies in changing the way we teach music to make it more inspiring

After an unenviable start, Limerick rallied its foot soldiers to its City of Culture cause. Has it delivered on its promises?

Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights

Number 12 is yet another home to come up on this exclusive road. A little less flash than its neighbours, this redbrick has lots of scope

The composer’s music is at its best when it accompanies something with a strong visual element, such as a film or dance show

Actually, buckets of sweat, blistered feet and countless falls, as soon becomes apparent when our reporter spends a fortnight trying to dance like Michael Flatley

Earlier this month live show sold 25 millionth ticket to spectator in Germany

Fernhurst, a detached, smartly decorated family house has landscaped mature gardens

A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme

Karl Wallace’s resignation comes after row over chief executive job

Limerick’s year as City of Culture is an opportunity to reimagine the city

In 2,000 or so entries by more than 200 contributors, a new encyclopedia sets out to chart Irish musical experience across recorded history. Here are 26 of them, from Air to Zozimus

Memorial service part of annual arts festival

Special tribute to be paid to late poet Dennis O’Driscoll

Athletes, families, volunteers and organisers recall the impace of a summer Games in Ireland