Hugh Linehan: ‘Trapped in a confined space with loud music played at you is what they do to terrorists,’ one commenter said about last weekend’s impromptu session
Paul Charles is no pushover. One of the lessons of Adventures in Wonderland, the Irish music agent’s new memoir, is that sometimes you have to say no
Second album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka Badhands
An Irishman’s Diary
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
Comment: He wrongly said she didn’t write her own songs – revealing a pop-vs-indie snobbery
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative
The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Donegal fiddle players’s new album Kin has a strong sense of people and of place
Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art
Forget about comparisons to Glen Hansard and other guitar-swinging troubadours
Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment
The musician admits there was a low period before he began making his third album
Jarvis Cocker’s wit is intact as he channels Leonard Cohen, but tunes are lacking
The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne
Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory
The late songwriter, who had mental health issues all his life, remains hugely influential
American artist sang candidly and sometimes disturbingly about his demons
At Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in between
Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies
The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world
The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition
About to have her first baby, Tanya Sweeney reflects on her youth and her late mother whose maxim was 'don't make me a gran'
Review: David Lowery’s film works its magic by treating its elder characters with respect
House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles
This albun changed my life: The singer on the frightening and otherworldly Tom Waits
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
