Barry Roche: The Cork tie that binds – bred in the bone

Come what may on Sunday, we are Cork and we are back

The greatest year for music was the year you came of age

Donald Clarke: You can’t beat 1981. Others will argue for 1967, 1989, 1995 or 2020. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong

New ballad recalls heroism of English fire chief during Burning of Cork

Alfred Hutson sought to battle blaze as drunken Auxiliaries shot at fire crews 100 years ago

In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation

As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Seedlings All review – Songs of depth and sensitivity

Various: Milk of the Tree - an Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 album review

Why Joan Shelley is ‘focusing in on the detail of our weirdnesses’

The main influence for Shelley’s fifth album was the time and space she was in

The Morning Tree: The Morning Tree

The New Mendicants – the indie supergroup that begs to differ

Indie kingpins Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub pool their creative resources for a low-budget side project that’s yielding good returns

14 years after her death, wishin’ and hopin’ for the real Dusty on screen

Films and a musicial about Dusty Springfield jockeying for position

How Kevin Macdonald found his fallout girl in Saoirse Ronan

At first, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald had doubts about casting Saoirse Ronan in the nuclear romance How I Live Now, but he quickly revised his opinion – “She’s the finest actor I have ever worked with”

Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year

Lumiere: My Dearest Dear