Love Storeys – Frank McNally on the eccentric but also romantic hotels of Paris

An Irishman’s Diary

Various artists: Pop Psychédélique review – Hits the nail on the head

Collection of French pop songs including Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot

Aoife Kelleher: ‘At my 30th my friends had to rescue the party from my morose playlist’

Soundtrack of My Life: The director on her lockdown listening, Francophilia, and Peppa Pig

Grainne Humphreys: ‘Not much makes me feel better than a George Michael nostalgia trip’

Soundtrack of My Life: Kate Bush, Philip Glass and more, from the director of Dublin film festival

Baxter Dury: The Night Chancers review – sultry, sleazy, sneering vignettes

Unencumbered by dad Ian’s legacy, Dury shows he’s very much his own man

Amazon suitors in US should learn from Ireland’s seduction moves

We have turned corporate and political courtship into an art form

France Gall dies aged 70 following battle with cancer

The French pop icon had a decades-long career after rising to fame in the 1960s

‘I was really interested in hairy ladies. The deviance’

Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair

‘I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream’

A gifted novelist and poet, Leonard Cohen brought a deft sense of narrative to songs that will never be forgotten

Weekend in . . . Montreal

The winters may be chilly, but the city offers lots of ways to escape the big freeze

Slim Twig: A Hound at the Hem

Review: Mr Freedom

Tame Impala: shy psychedelic expressionist types from Down Under

Tame Impala’s hazy, fluid sound draws from psychedelia and space rock. Far out. But Kevin Parker still finds it hard to perform in front of friends and family, he tells Siobham Kane

‘Young people don’t read paper’

Newspaper vendors in Paris make so little money they are working for love