Cormac Begley
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‘Other Voices’ team hosting virtual German-Irish concert
- Music
- August 7, 2020, 13:26
Ireland and Germany will bridge the pandemic gulf with culture on Friday evening, with a unique concert linking the edge of Europe with its centre. T(...)

Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece
- Music
- October 25, 2019, 07:00
Expectations upended, preconceptions shattered: that’s the shape of Lankum’s world, and it’s a world of wide horizons and imaginations writ large on T(...)

Carlow Arts Festival: Wide awake to the virtual and the real
- Culture
- May 30, 2019, 05:00
Programming a festival is like putting a selection box together. You’re trying to find the right mix. Everyone loves the salted caramels, but what abo(...)

Gig of the Week: Anam allows other voices to be heard at DCU
- Music
- March 30, 2019, 05:00
As the landscape of Irish music shifts, with venues being demolished and turned into hotels and third-party ticket sites hiking up the cost of tickets(...)

St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend
- People
- March 14, 2019, 06:00
The forecast may not be great for this year’s St Patrick’s Day, but there are lots of events and other attractions, many indoors, to keep you entertai(...)

Fingers crossed for a dry Paddy’s weekend
- Culture
- March 9, 2019, 05:00
A year ago, when the snow hit St Patrick’s weekend, among the cancellations was the Big Day Out, a St Patrick’s Festival perennial on Dublin’s Merrion(...)

St Patrick’s Festival 2019 aims to leave a lasting legacy
- Music
- March 9, 2019, 05:00
We are our stories. To be human is to have a story to tell. This year’s St Patrick’s Festival takes our indigenous love of and facility for storytelli(...)

New artist of the week: Tebi Rex
- Music
- January 19, 2019, 05:00
What: Alternative indie-hip-hop pop Where: Kildare Why: Matt O’Baoill and Max Zanga are two young Maynooth boys who have been building a fine head of (...)

‘Corners of Dublin are being gentrified all the time. I’m not impressed’
- Music
- October 26, 2018, 06:00
It is notable that, when asked about her formative years, Irish folk musician Lisa O’Neill responds by saying that she accidentally poisoned herself w(...)

Ticket Awards 2017: The best music of the year
- Culture
- December 2, 2017, 05:00
Our critics have picked their best beats from 2017 and now it’s over to you. Click on irishtimes.com/ticketawards to vote for your favourite arti(...)