Dave Brubeck

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The Dublin team celebrates with the Sam Maguire cup. Photograph: ©INPHO/James Crombie
Brexit, 5-star Dubs, DUP, research grants

Fintan O’Toole/For the first time since 1171, Ireland is more powerful than Britain: It is foolish to read too much into body language, but what we sa(...)

Dublin’s Brian Howard and Eoin Murchan celebrate five in a row. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho
Dublin take five and their deserved place in GAA history

The tumult on the pitch eventually subsided and by the time Dave Brubeck sounded a mellow finale, the fact sank in that this was history. It never fee(...)

Ciara Geraghty: I was under the impression that I had come to terms with my father not being here, long before he died. And then I found that list.. Photograph: Doreen Kilfeather
I see Dad’s name on an old book launch guest list and the grief feels brand new, box fresh
  • Books
  • May 3, 2019, 05:25

I found the guest list for my last book launch. It fell out of a folder and floated to the ground, sort of quiet and apologetic, like the last leaf fr(...)

Declan Burke-Kennedy: April 1st, 1944-December 5th, 2016
Obituary: Declan Burke-Kennedy
  • People
  • December 24, 2016, 06:00

Declan Burke-Kennedy, theatre co-founder, dramatist and journalist, has died aged 72. A man of considerable charm and geniality; an independent spi(...)

Members of Cork’s Groove Collective Cian O’Sullivan, Fiona Nolan and Seb Schneider as the 34th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival gets under way. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Cork jazz festival born out of cancelled bridge convention

Bridge may have an image as that most sedate and genteel of card games while jazz originated in the dangerously seductive world of New Orleans brothe(...)

Amala - Resonance album review: glorious barrier-breaking music
  • Music
  • June 15, 2016, 16:30

This fine collection is full of glorious barrier-breaking music. Reidun Schlesinger and Paul de Grae break every rule in the book, to glorious effect(...)

Composer Dave Flynn. Photograph: John O’Neill
Clare Memory Orchestra: A marriage of classical and trad loses the sheet music
  • Music
  • July 16, 2015, 01:00

The cross-fertilisation of musical forms is nothing new. Just ask Bach, Dave Brubeck, Chris Thile or Seán Ó Riada. Baroque music has influenced jaz(...)