Come what may on Sunday, we are Cork and we are back

Donald Clarke: You can’t beat 1981. Others will argue for 1967, 1989, 1995 or 2020. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong

Alfred Hutson sought to battle blaze as drunken Auxiliaries shot at fire crews 100 years ago

As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season

The main influence for Shelley’s fifth album was the time and space she was in

Indie kingpins Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub pool their creative resources for a low-budget side project that’s yielding good returns

Films and a musicial about Dusty Springfield jockeying for position

At first, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald had doubts about casting Saoirse Ronan in the nuclear romance How I Live Now, but he quickly revised his opinion – “She’s the finest actor I have ever worked with”

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year