Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway

The singer-songwriter John Smith on the album that taught him less is more

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ

Architect turned musician Eoin French aka Talos spent months preparing for his debut album, but it was sudden impulses in the studio that led to his best musical moments

This week, Fight Like Apes called it a day. I first discovered them in the Róisín Dubh in Galway and nothing was ever quite the same

In terrible revolutionary fall-out his Mise Éire master piece was expropriated by Republicanism

Bronze tribute to Thin Lizzy frontman previously damaged in 2013 by vandals

Who are the acts to watch in 2015? And how did our predictions for last year fare? We asked some music industry insiders to look into their tea leaves and make some predictions

Megahits from Game of Thrones to the Marvel universe are suffused in myth; so where are the echoes of Irish myth in contemporary culture? It turns out we’re surrounded by the stuff

Now that Ó Drónaí has rediscovered his love for pop music, the days of regarding him as just the ‘lad with the fiddle’ are well and truly over. He talks about his indie-trad-electro-math-rock progression and why the new album will be ‘pop from tip to toe’

Irish audiences have embraced John Grant’s brave and beautiful anti-love songs. Call it collective atonement for Garth Brooks

Storytelling sessions in a London park inspired a contemporary version of Deirdre of the Sorrows

Homes evacuated in Limerick as tidal swells hit, west sweeping away coastal defences

Sax maestro Jake Clemons (nephew of the late Clarence) is looking forward to his solo trek around Ireland. He might even get a bit of surfing in, he tells Jim Carroll

Huge crowd turns out for unveiling of restored statue of Thin Lizzy legend

The Cúirt festival brings a heavyweight literary line-up to Galway this week – here are 10 highlights