Karen Power

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Richard Proffitt’s installation May the Moon Rise and the Sun Set at UCC’s Dept of Music in Sunday’s Well forms part of the festiva
Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival

The modest citizens of Cork may wish to avert their eyes from the Crawford Art Gallery during this year’s Midsummer Festival when The Fig Reveal strip(...)

Kate Ellis: celebrating women composers
Women composers find a voice: The week’s best classical music

Finding a Voice Various venues, Clonmel, Co Tipperary Saturday March 10th 1pm. 3pm & 8pm southtippartscentre.ie  It’s the last day of Findin(...)

Director John Harris: lumbered with new commitments?
Director’s first full festival hoves into view

There’s a great, thought-provoking line by GK Chesterton in which he claims that “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly”. I first came ac(...)

Oisín Whelan and his mum Catherine. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Dyspraxia: When the brain takes the ‘scenic route’

A teacher sweeps into the classroom, tells the pupils to take out a certain textbook, turn to page 25 and start writing out answers to question three (...)

Composer Karen Power: The performance in Heuston train station was true to the spirit of the Fluxus movement.
Shostakovich’s Tenth: a celebration of surviving Stalin
  • Music
  • October 19, 2016, 06:00

A man is joyfully jumping up and down. On a grave. He is cheering, savagely, fists raised. “In your face,” he shouts. “You are gone. I’m still here.” (...)

Waterford in the south-east was founded by the Vikings in 914AD and claims to be Ireland’s oldest city.
Shopping spraoi: Waterford city

First up on Alanna Gallagher’s whistlestop tour is the Déise capital Waterford in the south-east was founded by the Vikings in 914AD and claims to (...)

“Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” asks men (and women) to put on high heels and walk a mile at one of three venues in Dublin, Cork and Galway in aid of Women’s Aid and Concern.
Does fundraiser trade on gender stereotypes?

“Are you man enough?” That’s the challenge from Concern and Women’s Aid for their upcoming fundraiser. “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” asks men (and women)(...)

John Wilson: ‘takes the players of the RTÉCO to a new level of responsiveness. They sound like a better band when he is in charge’
Monopoly shake-up? John Wilson muscles in on NSO’s patch

There is nothing like competition to keep people on their toes. Or so we’re told. But when it comes to the larger end of the orchestral reperto(...)