Michael Gallen’s Straymaker, Wexford Festival Opera and Irish National Opera make list

Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video

An expressionistic form-bending film, giving an insight into the process and product of stage design

Jo Mangan hopes to open public’s eyes to new ideas as well as offering the classics

Eight-hour Sleep to be performed, for 200 slumbering listeners, at Carlow Arts Festival

Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

Arts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the future

Creative professionals are cautiously optimistic but wary of a branding exercise

Humphreys announces boost to range of bodies including €5m for Arts Council

Arts campaigner and Carlow Festival of Arts director Jo Mangan has dedicated her life to challenging the idea that art is for the elite

Meeting discusses tactics following controversy over ‘downgrading’ of government department

Move comes after changes to the department viewed as a demotion by the sector

Deirdre Kinahan’s new play fits a love triangle over the forces of the Rising. But can it be contained?

The last story in The Dubliners is already full of song, but opera proved to be a great way of bringing out the ‘internal arias’ in characters’ heads