Noam Chomsky and Zadie Smith headline Mountains to Sea virtual books festivalJoe Biden’s biographer; novelist Polly Samson and husband David Gilmour also featureSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:59
Online fundraising: ‘First time, I didn’t leave the room. It’s all consuming’Fund It, the Irish crowdfunding website, celebrates 10 years, having supported 1,200 creative projectsSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
The Gate’s Selina Cartmell: ‘We were fighting for our lives’Closed for a year, the theatre is staging a new Frank McGuinness play written during CovidSat Mar 27 2021 - 05:00
Live performance support worth €50m acknowledges sector’s fight for survivalAnalysis: Grants to be paid in arrears, which may be difficult for cash-strapped promotersFri Mar 19 2021 - 13:00
€25m live entertainment grant programme opens for applicationsLive Performance Support Scheme 2021 will award grants of €10,000-€800,000Fri Mar 19 2021 - 11:12
Alonement: Learning solitude skills to make time alone fulfilling and pleasurableThe time is always right for solitude skills: journaling, scheduling time for yourself, treating yourself well ...Sat Mar 13 2021 - 00:00
Cúirt was the first arts festival hit by Covid and now it's back online againThere’s a strong lineup for this year including Viet Thanh Nguyen, Emma Dabiri, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Elaine Feeney, Max Porter, Marian Keyes and moreThu Mar 11 2021 - 11:00
Helping hand: Initiative to help mothers in direct provisionMatching mothers to pass on the tradition of handing down baby essentialsSat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
St Patrick’s Day Festival 2021: A year on, Paddy’s Day has changed utterlyThis year’s virtual festival will be a six-day TV channel in Ireland, and online worldwideSat Mar 06 2021 - 05:00
Truce in century-long row between Ireland and UK over Hugh Lane’s paintingsNew partnership around 39 works agreed between Dublin and London galleriesFri Feb 26 2021 - 20:09
Arts Council to invest €46m from biggest ever grant to help key cultural organisations stay afloatRecord €130m budget reflects reality that culture sector ‘will still be living with Covid’Thu Feb 25 2021 - 17:21
Abbey Theatre: New artistic and executive directors announcedCaitríona McLaughlin and Mark O’Brien will succeed Graham McLaren and Neil MurrayTue Feb 23 2021 - 16:25
St Patrick’s Festival to stream worldwide with six-day TV stationAwaken Ireland! theme will ‘connect our family of 80m’ with more than 100 virtual eventsWed Feb 17 2021 - 11:00
Rough Magic prepares to cast spell on live audiences againThe theatre company is feeding the future through a wide development programmeTue Feb 16 2021 - 05:00
Dancer and choreographer Emma O’Kane dies aged 44CoisCéim dancer was ‘a performer of extreme passion and talent’Wed Feb 10 2021 - 19:01
When will we dance again? The importance of clubbing as culture‘On the dancefloors we totally lost ourselves and discovered ourselves’Sat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Gabriel Byrne: ‘We stayed long enough to see the blood seeping through the Brother’s hair’The actor spoke to Hugh Linehan on the final evening of the Irish Times Winter Nights festivalFri Jan 29 2021 - 23:23
Radio still plays ‘staggeringly, shockingly’ more male Irish artistsGender Disparity report shows boost for female Irish artists only on some radio stationsThu Jan 21 2021 - 06:00
A guide to the festivals (probably) taking place in Ireland in 2021Contingency planning is the name of the game for arts festivals and events in the coming yearSat Jan 16 2021 - 05:00
How Covid-19 changed what Ireland eats and cooksA pandemic plus: Irish people cooking more from scratch, according to studyThu Jan 07 2021 - 06:00
Performers on 2020: ‘This year wasn’t difficult, it was a wipe-out’Elaine Kelly, Steve Wall, Sharon Shannon, Seán Millar and others on a tough year for the artsSat Dec 26 2020 - 05:00
Weirdest term ever: How students have coped, from primary to third levelPupils and students around Ireland, and their teachers, on learning in Covid-19’s shadowSat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
Samhlú 2020: Imagining a magical world of performance and creativityTG4’s joyous and surreal film celebrates the resilience of art in the age of CovidThu Dec 10 2020 - 05:00
An Irish Aid worker’s life: ‘I was face to face with human tragedy you don’t think exists’Anne O’Mahony looks back on four decades working amid war and famineSun Dec 06 2020 - 06:00
As bookshops reopen, everyone involved takes stockFor writers, publishers and retailers, the pandemic is presenting unusual challengesTue Dec 01 2020 - 05:00
The Stairlift Ascends: An unlikely duo and their new Covid bookHelen O’Rahilly’s witty musings about her Aunt have gained a legion of followersSat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
The BBC is censoring Fairytale of New York again. What’s going on?Radio 1 won’t play The Pogues’ original to protect its ‘particularly sensitive’ listenersThu Nov 19 2020 - 16:40
Universal basic income of €325 a week mooted for arts workersThree-year pilot, costing €2.5m per 1,000 participants, proposed by recovery taskforceTue Nov 17 2020 - 19:09
Birdsong fills the air at rail stations across the countryArt project aims to treat commuters to daily dose of bird singingMon Nov 16 2020 - 21:33
First Look: New gourmet foodhall opens on Clontarf seafrontDublin 4 favourite Lotts & Co opens second outlet on the northsideFri Nov 13 2020 - 07:52
Un-focking-believable. Ross O’Carroll-Kelly gets pictured in the National LibraryCultural phenomenon and ‘national treasure’ immortalised by the OrtsThu Nov 12 2020 - 07:00
Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2020 revealedTikToker and Megxit among mostly coronavirus-related terms on dictionary's top 10 listTue Nov 10 2020 - 06:49
US election’s oddest moments: dead man gets voted in, ‘BBQ, Beer, Freedom’ man gets angryWith tensions running high in the disUnited States, these little glimmers of daftness lightened the moodFri Nov 06 2020 - 07:01
National Symphony Orchestra move will save RTÉ € 8m a yearBudget allocates funds for orchestra’s planned move to National Concert HallFri Oct 16 2020 - 11:47
Live events industry welcomes €50m support but some members close to collapseIndustry says CRSS excludes specialist SMEs which don’t have public-facing businessesFri Oct 16 2020 - 11:44
Budget 2021: Extra €50m for Covid-hit live entertainment sectorIndustry groups welcome pledged €50m increase in Arts Council funding to €130mTue Oct 13 2020 - 19:40
Will Budget 2021 boost be enough to save the arts?Variety of measures will impact organisations and some individuals in sector positivelyTue Oct 13 2020 - 19:38
Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challengeHenry marks 30 years of absurd, visual drama as Blue Raincoat packs up till Covid allowsMon Oct 12 2020 - 05:00
The ‘arts recession’ will be five times worse than the rest of the economyRecovery may take until 2025 as sector hit far harder than other areas of economySat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
Open House Dublin: Finding new ways to unlock the city’s architectural richesTo plan this year’s festival in a pandemic, the organisers had to think outside the usual spacesSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
‘And that's Irish people?’ – expert surprised one third would not take Covid vaccineSuspicion of a vaccine was just one finding of RTE’s Next Normal survey of life in pandemic-hit IrelandFri Oct 02 2020 - 07:00
GIAF Autumn Edition: Close encounters of the artistic kindIn September, Galway was where citizens could stumble on something wonderfulWed Sept 30 2020 - 05:00
Óró…: This immersive production is a feast for the sensesGalway 2020 production defies categories, incorporating music, dance and theatreTue Sept 29 2020 - 11:00
Shane Tivenan wins RTÉ short story competitionMadrid-based author’s first published story is about Irish woman who shot MussoliniMon Sept 28 2020 - 20:00
Blackrock and Mulhuddart: How Covid-19 affected two Dublin suburbsOne has the lowest virus levels in Dublin, the other one of the highest. Why the discrepancy?Sat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Obligatory skirts for school girls is anachronistic in 2020It’s time for an end to uniforms that enforce antiquated notions of femalenessWed Sept 23 2020 - 01:54
Great Taste awards: Irish food producers win 19 top ratings – their most successful year yetRepublic of Ireland producers won 396 awards, with 172 winners in Northern IrelandMon Sept 21 2020 - 18:07
Culture Night 2020: From a Liffey tour to Cork slang lessons, 30 events not to missLivestreamed orchestra, an interactive universe, live dance and theatre and online rapFri Sept 18 2020 - 07:30
Why do we force girls to wear skirts to school?While a growing number of schools offer a choice of trousers, the majority of girls in secondary schools are stuck with the traditional skirtSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Culture Night: Gaining a wider reach in the social distancing eraTrying to capitalise on opportunities presents difficulties for an event usually based on live settingsSat Sept 12 2020 - 05:00
