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Transfer of the National Symphony Orchestra to the NCH was recommended by an RTÉ-commissioned report four years ago. File photograph: The Irish Times
RTÉ’s cost savings update won’t be music to everybody’s ears

Monday marks both a subdued moment for RTÉ’s public service credentials and a quietly significant one for its stop-start cost-cutting efforts. On Janu(...)

Lisa O’Neill is among those performing work inspired by the Anglo-Irish Treaty debates and related events at the National Concert Hall. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Gig of the Week: Treaty – Songs, with Christy Moore, Lisa O’Neill and more

Please check before making a journey: new coronavirus rules may affect some of these events GIG OF THE WEEK Treaty: Songs Saturday, December 11th, N(...)

David Brophy with the Choir of Ages. Photograph: Kyran O’Brien
An Irish plan to break the record for the number of nationalities in a choir

Alongside cabin fever, anxiety and home baking, singing was an early theme of lockdown last year. Do you remember those scenes from Italian balconies,(...)

The National Concert Hall has hosted an enormous variety of performances in the last four decades.
National Concert Hall: The best bits from 40 years of performance
  • Music
  • November 28, 2021, 05:00

Loah – singer/songwriter What has been a highlight or standout moment for you at the National Concert Hall (NCH)? I adored seeing Tinariwen pla(...)

Patrick Moy plays Michael Collins as a brusque military general turned reluctant politician in Fishamble’s The Treaty. Photograph: Ste Murray
The Treaty review: Intrigue and subterfuge in this gender-blind story of freedom
  • Stage
  • November 25, 2021, 16:00

The Treaty National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Recital Room ★★★★☆ “They’re Celts. They’ve been at it for 700 years and they’ll be at it for the next (...)

Karen Ardiff as Arthur Griffith, Shadaan Felfeli as Robert Barton, Patrick Moy as Michael Collins, John Cronin as Cathal Brugha and Jane Brennan as Eamon De Valera during rehearsals. Photograph: Alan Betson
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty

On the walls of the entrance to the Kevin Barry rehearsal rooms in the National Concert Hall are photographs from the Treaty debates 100 years ago. (...)

The closure of the Science Gallery is easily the most short-sighted academic development decision TCD has made in a decade. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Net Results: My blood is boiling over the Science Gallery closure

Back in an era when free-range children were the norm, I used to get on my single-gear, red bicycle and cycle across my California hometown to the Pal(...)

The babies were the cutest little things, all kitted out in their gear, looking like they were about to swim the English Channel. Photograph: iStock
In a pandemic, being in a small pool in Kilmainham feels like being on holiday

This is part of a series by Aisling Marron It’s harder to get into a baby swim class in Dublin than it is to get into Schitt’s Creek. (Fi(...)

Garryard House, 25 Earlsfort Terrace: extending to 16,000sq ft, it is next door to Deloitte House, a 65,000sq ft building on the corner of Hatch Street, overlooking the National Concert Hall.
Iput plans Earlsfort Terrace revamp after buying second building

Iput, the leading Irish commercial real-estate investment and development group, has acquired a building adjacent to the Deloitte House property it bo(...)

37 Bushy Park Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6: former home of Veronica Dunne extends to 3,353sq ft and is laid out over three floors
Veronica Dunne’s Dublin home on the market for €2.3m

If walls could talk, there would certainly be a lot of chatter from the formal drawing room of 37 Bushy Park Road, one of Rathgar’s finest avenues, wh(...)

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