22+ hour, 14+ min ago   (336+ words) John Francis Flynn is up against it at Bohemian FC’s Dalymount Park, where he has to overcome not only the revelation that he once had a passing fancy for Bohs’ nearby rivals Shelbourne, but also the audience’s incessant chatter. The…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (339+ words) Uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, one of the founding members of The Bothy Band, has died aged 76. Born into a Traveller family and raised in Dublin, Keenan was the third generation in his family to take up the uilleann pipes. Keenan…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (712+ words) One of the finest musicians ever to play a traditional tune died on Wednesday, September 9th, at the age of 76, after an illness. The uilleann piper Paddy Keenan was best known for his groundbreaking musicianship with The Bothy Band. His visceral…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (307+ words) The idea for Neil Green’s Diversity Training has legs, but its execution is undercooked and uncomfortable for long stretches. Green presents and performs one of a series of stand-up sets centred around PowerPoint presentations on diversity and inclusion. The show…...

6+ day, 55+ min ago   (207+ words) Founded in 2012 as a classical chamber music collective, Musici Ireland has since expanded into hybrid theatre, including 2023’s A Mother’s Voice, which tackled Ireland’s mother and baby homes. An equal combination of theatre and musical performance, Chronically Hopeful’s ensemble comprises…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (566+ words) The Dublin Book Festival’s story began 20 years ago when a group of Irish publishers, led by Michael O’Brien, founder of The O’Brien Press, came together with a shared belief that Ireland’s writers deserved a festival of their own. A place…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (837+ words) Seamus Heaney knew Derry’s walls. He would have looked out on them, often enough, as a boarder at St Columb’s College, over the rows of terraced houses that climb their way up the hill from the Bogside to Creggan, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1803+ words) If the divided loyalties and complex identities of his forebears gave Sebastian Barry the key subject and the essential structure for his career as a writer, witnessing while a student at Trinity College Dublin part of the loyalist triple car…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (604+ words) Construction of a 1916 museum on Dublin’s Moore Street, originally set to open a decade ago for the centenary of the Easter Rising, is finally moving ahead with builders to be sought within months. The buildings at 14-17 Moore Street, the final…...