Jumping Jack – How Samuel Beckett’s favourite actor Jack MacGowran hit the heights

An Irishman’s Diary

How a magazine became a piece of experimental art

Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery

Cork jazz festival born out of cancelled bridge convention

Guitarist Larry Correll and New Orleans drummer Jason Marsalis among highlights

Buster’s last stand – An Irishman’s Diary about one of the 20th century’s great comedians

Culture Shock: Beckett’s Irish women finally have a distinctly Irish voice

Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’

Cork prepares for bumper weekend of jazzy sounds

Over 40,000 fans expected to attend 400 gigs and inject €10 million into Cork economy