How Enda Loughman and Urban Agency designed a triangular home in Windy Arbour

Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?

From Ad Adstra to Frozen 2 and Martin Scorsese's latest, there's plenty to look forward to in the new year

Test your knowledge of the past 12 months with these 100 questions – and you could win a prize

Year in Culture Review: ‘Mothers of Invention’ is what you should listen to as the world changes

The Minister for Culture on the ‘talented’ Saoirse Ronan and ‘very funny’ Oliver Callan

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

The singer on her favourite gadget, and why she loves Maeve Higgins and Caravaggio

Former president Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins have joined forces to tackle climate change - from a feminist perspective

Ireland ‘has to go a lot further’ former president tells Galway ocean wealth conference

Bloom, Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit, Vantastival, Women’s Mini Marathon and more

Zany or dark? Smart or dumb? Gently reassuring or wickedly disturbing? The festival has it all

Hard to understand Ryan Tubridy not even challenging Maeve Higgins on Late Late Show

The Ray D’Arcy show will discuss consent in wake of Belfast trial while Aidan Gillen plays Dave Allen

The fact that the Irish suffered discrimination is lost on many Irish-Americans today

The ‘Irish Stand’ movement is gaining momentum ahead of the St Patrick’s Day event in New York

There has never been a better time to tune in to this growing community of talented people

Senator Aodhán O'Riordáin on his New York St Patrick’s Day event for Irish-Americans

Big coats will keep you toasty, but cost of Christmas puts a chill down the spine

Safety, gay and immigration rights, and corporation tax under a Trump administration are some of the concerns among Americans-in-Ireland and Irish-in-America

Some well-known Irish people tell us what would put a smile on their faces, and we want to hear from you too

The new director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival high hopes for her role leading this ‘explosion of the arts’ - including the Funniest Joke of the Fringe

The theatre protest movement held two events in NYC, with organiser Lisa Tierney-Keogh saying its time to ‘kick the f**king door down’

From the frenzied seasonal supermarket shop to spending the season away from home to the challenges of a menopausal Christmas, the women’s podcast brings you festive reflections from seven Irish writers

Also in episode five: Maeve Higgins is wild about Cork and a guide to female networking

‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’

Race ready: Some 37,000 athletes expected to raise in the region of €12m for worthy causes

Also on Monday, the Cork City Marathon is set to attract more than 9,000 competitors

Maeve Higgins makes her mark with a show of warmth and charm

Dublin Fringe Festival director Róise Goan to hand over role to Canadian at event’s end

As a stellar line-up begins gathering for next weekend’s Vodafone comedy festival in Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, Brian Boyd hears how headliner John Bishop’s failing marriage inspired his stand-up career and how his wife eventually found him funny again

Only five of the 57 acts at next month’s Vodafone Comedy Festival, in Dublin, are women. Perhaps that’s because women are being funny in ways that don’t always rely on stand-up