Stephen James Smith

Fans pay up to £3,500 to attend fundraiser alongside the great and good of city’s Irish

London’s Irish community get ready for a blast of Ed Sheeran

Dublin festival features concerts, workshops, masterclasses and creative partnerships

The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway

GB18 sees Irish theatre, art, dance and music on show all year long in Britain

‘Unbelieeeeeevable’ the only word as Ireland secure their place in history books

From Dublin’s huge parade to small, quirky events around Ireland

In conversation: Grace Dyas and Gary Gannon

Beth Orton is back on the gig trail; The Lost Brothers find their way around Ireland; British Sea Power sail on; and The Pale are still hale 25 years later

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

Stage times for the Main, Body and Soul, Rankin’s Wood and Other Voices stages

Every stage, every band, every slot for this weekend’s festival

The spoken-word festival is holding its final event next week, but its demise isn’t an entirely sad story

An Olympic medallist, Alsatian farmers and a pirate queen all featured in this year’s event

Poet Stephen James Smith manages to tread the line between knowing and clever, and full of heart and raw emotion

More than 3,000 performers to take part, with 100,000 overseas visitors expected

In a new piece commissioned for the St Patrick’s Festival, spoken-word artist Stephen James Smith encapsulates the best (and worst) of Ireland

Young Blood: an edgy night of hip hop and poetry in the NCH promises to present the voices of the next generation

Working Abroad: Gary Dunne, director of arts and culture at the London Irish Centre

John Colbert, one half of Black Bank Folk with Jimmy Sheeran, is a grandnephew of executed leader Con Colbert, but their album focuses on smaller stories