Tom Waits

Forget about comparisons to Glen Hansard and other guitar-swinging troubadours

Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment

The musician admits there was a low period before he began making his third album

An Irishman’s Diary

Jarvis Cocker’s wit is intact as he channels Leonard Cohen, but tunes are lacking

The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne

Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory

The late songwriter, who had mental health issues all his life, remains hugely influential

American artist sang candidly and sometimes disturbingly about his demons

At Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in between

Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies

The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world

The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

About to have her first baby, Tanya Sweeney reflects on her youth and her late mother whose maxim was 'don't make me a gran'