Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film

The Biosphere Project is a sonic adventure outdoors, says co-director Sebastian Adams

Arts Council chairman Kevin Rafter says Sweeney and his music would be ‘sorely missed’

With more than 20 events over four days, the festival features the best in contemporary music

NSO sub-season duplicates previous efforts and focuses too much on British connections

Ireland’s longest running arts and health organisation the Waterford Healing Arts Trust is making a real difference

Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’

Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm

There’s no way that the whole programme can be saved – it’s too big and too complicated for that

It is designed to make players sound better than they are – but a recent performance did the opposite

The celebration of 100 years of Irish composition hits mid-century, revealing a dark age for orchestral music

The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity

Opera repertoire has broadened since the French composer’s 1967 comments, and ‘The Invader’ continues a fine recent tradition of new opera in Ireland

Cork had the first production of 2014, and features in two successful Arts Council funding applications