‘I was in a coma for weeks. Now I don’t sweat the small stuff. I don’t suffer from despair’
Kilkenny Arts Festival director Olga Barry has overcome health scares but is looking for new accommodation at age of 50 after renting for 34 years
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Barry Douglas review: When he gets the bit between his teeth he’s one of the most exciting pianists around
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: There was a sense of a raw force of nature about Douglas’s recital at St Canice’s Cathedral on Monday
Carducci String Quartet: Kilkenny Arts Festival audience clearly appreciates this passionate, emotionally engaged playing
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: In a chalk-and-cheese programme, the players’ fondness for fullness and heartiness of tone is a little too strongly in evidence
Migration Sonata: United by a common physical language
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The choreographer John Scott brings Ukrainian and Brazilian migrants together in this spirited dance
The Local: Debs night, 1992, and a community’s hopes, dreams and difficulties are unfolding before us
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: This ambitious community play, staged in the cabaret lounge of a working bar, is at its best in its heightened, stylised moments
Camerata Kilkenny: Gorgeous tones and mesmerising command in a Bach-dominated programme
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The group’s harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, featured as a young musician at the first festival, back in 1974
‘The only way out is a divorce!’: Carducci String Quartet on being married to music and each other
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: Couples might find it hard to work and live together. The two pairs of Carducci musicians cannot imagine it any other way
The Local: A love poem to the Irish pub
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: At Sheridans in Ennisnag, a large cast is rehearsing for a play about the bar’s role in Irish community life
Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates life
An exhibition coming to the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival underlines how present sport is in every aspect of life
Clare Monnelly: ‘Women have had a terrible time in this country for a really long time’
When the actor started writing and creating her own work, she found a new level of fulfilment
Kilkenny Arts Festival’s 2023 line-up: From Light Up the Castle to eavesdropping in the local
It’s been a year like no other for the festival team, who ‘had to find a couple of extra gears’ to get ready for August
Pop-up jazz supergroup in Kilkenny: this week’s best jazz gigs
Chris Guilfoyle’s Superumbra. Plus: Súp, Maya Youssef and Camille O’Sullivan
‘When the revolution started, I was not political. Then people started to die’
Counting Sheep began life at the heart of the revolution on Ukraine’s Maidan. Is it more than radical tourism?
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