culture

Dublin Fringe Festival marks 30 years with packed programme

It has been 30 years since Bedrock Productions, with some support from the established Dublin Theatr...

RTÉ Celebrates Culture Night: A punk rock extravagnza in Derry

"People are gonna be mad, but we're here now, so we're gonna rock out!

Leonard Cohen's 5 best songs - Suzanne Savage's ultimate playlist

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NCAD denies discriminating against student with Down syndrome

The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) has denied discriminating against a woman with Down sy...

Why commercial fiction is an ideal place for social activism

Commercial fiction gives us a greater understanding of others Commercial fiction authors often commu...

The Third Man - on location with a movie masterpiece

I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. I was...

RTÉ celebrates Culture Night 2024 - everything you need to know

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Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

FILM: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE The juice is loose again! 36 years (!) later, director Tim Burton revi...

Sunday Miscellany: The Kerlogue, by Fran O'Rourke

Not long ago, a German lady named Beatrice Karsch, who was very dear to me and my family, died, aged...

Is Astro Bot the video game of the year?

Astro is back and better than ever! Prepare to have a permanent smile on your face as you rescue ico...

Scott Pilgrim ar fáil sa Ghaeilge

Tá foilsitheoir nua ar an mbloc. Gliadar is ainm dó agus tá sé dírithe ar bhearna sa mhargadh do dhé...

Never forget: Ross Kileen's tale of memory, family, love and loss

Filmmaker Ross Kileen introduces his new documentary Don't Forget to Remember, which follows the Iri...

Something For The Weekend: Sophie Motley's cultural picks

Sophie Motley is the new Artistic Director of one of the country's most loved cultural institutions,...

Sunday Miscellany: My Pre-University Challenge, by Jennifer Carey

For years, there's been an unspoken rule in our house that on Monday evenings at 8 p.m., the TV will...

Paddy O'Dwyer - a giant of Irish youth theatre remembered

Paddy O'Dwyer, the founder of Dublin Youth Theatre (DYT) passed away on Wednesday, August 28th. He w...

David Gray visits Skellig Michael for RTÉ's Culture Night special

Punk rock live from the stage at Sandino's in Derry

Newpark Academy of Music to reopen this month

Via The Journal Of Music: Newpark Academy of Music, the well-known music school in south county Dubl...

Kaos rules - an expert in ancient Greece on the new Netflix epic

Last year, one of my child's English assignments was to rewrite a traditional fairy tale with one ma...

Old Gods & New Guns – the latest games reviewed

The last week of August saw a surge of new games being released. And as we approach the final few mo...

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall: why her singular screen presence will shine on

With large expressive eyes and a big, slightly bucktoothed smile, she was few people's idea of a con...

From LEGO Fortnite to Minecraft: great educational games for kids

Create your own games with Super Mario Maker & Game Builder Garage (PEGI Rating 3/7) With coding...

Would you really pay €500 for an Oasis ticket?

Analysis: As many will find out on Saturday morning, we don't always rationally and objectively eval...

The Grateful Water by Juliana Adelman - read an extract

We present an extract from The Grateful Water, the debut novel by Juliana Adelman. When a young butc...

Comedian Kyla Cobbler on standing up for a good cause

Those with their finger on the pulse of Irish comedy are sure to have noticed the up-and-coming Kyla...

Star Wars Outlaws Review: A Galactic Triumph

Star Wars Outlaws is an open-world adventure that takes gamers on a trip through the galaxy's crimin...

The Art of Reading: Belinda McKeon talks to Colm Tóibín

The Art of Reading is a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction. Eac...

A writer in exile - Aimée Walsh on her debut novel

Exile, appropriately, was written while I lived away from my home-city, Belfast. I had been living i...

Welcome to Brat Summer - how Charlie XCX created a moment

You can blame Charli XCX. Before her most recent album was released, the word 'brat' was reserved fo...

The beginnings of Brian Friel - inside the new biography

Author Kelly Matthews introduces, a new biography of the legendary playwright and author of Dancing ...

Horror goes Gaeilge

You wait for ages for an Irish language horror to arrive and then two show up at the same time - An ...