Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent

A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera

Council needs to embrace idea it will no longer be sole recipient of funding

Council’s director questioned at committee about friendship with Michael Colgan

Spending promises for arts fail to materialise in budget

Campaigners compare Taoiseach’s promise unfavourably with Justin Trudeau’s actions

Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera will merge to form new entity

Committee welcomes decision to leave €2.7m stipend system unchanged

Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years

Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey

Higgins heard news ‘with sorrow’, describing him as ‘one of our finest poets’

Humphreys announces boost to range of bodies including €5m for Arts Council

McBride’s is one of a number of high-profile culture contracts due to expire

In 2013 Nora Hickey M’Sichili got her dream job of running the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the French capital. Have recent events changed the tone?

Abbey Theatre error on 2016 and fallout between the Arts Council and Government reflects badly on cultural priorities

Relations between Humphreys and group said to be strained over budget allocation

Department of Arts gets hike of 12%, but Arts Council is not happy with modest rise

Playwright ‘part of the theatrical life of every theatre house’ in Ireland, Abbey director says

‘His work spoke to each of us with humour, emotion and authenticity,’ Taoiseach says

Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts

Nine projects picked by Arts Council include music, dance, film and sound installations

From Japan’s low obesity rates to Belgium’s happy renters, the world is full of examples of how to make society smarter, healthier and more enriching

Heather Humphreys’s lack of an arts background was much discussed when she was made the Minister for the sector, but she is showing herself to be capable, intelligent and engaged

The council says it is ‘very pleased’ with the steering group’s findings. Let’s hope real change will follow

National theatre struggling with falling audiences and funding

She has been chairwoman of the Arts Council for six months and change is in the air. Minutes from meetings are now online, funding is coming under closer scrutiny, and the organisation’s role is under review. She explains her plans

Novelist ‘incredibly honoured and petrified’ to be taking on role

Five people compose letters from Ireland to the wider world. Read theirs, write your own, and we’ll publish the best ones on St Patrick’s Weekend

Grant awarded to mother of council executive

Oireachtas committee to seek details as mother of head of traditional arts awarded grant of €16,500

Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’

Cork-native (93) was major force in Irish art since 1940s

The 50 people - in public service, business and law - who run the Republic

Extra Peacock shows possible if theatre revenues improve

Heaney’s final formal interview took place in Paris last June

Irish poet’s 90-minute performance the highlight of month-long Marché de la Poésie festival