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Daniel Reardon on Beckett’s All That Fall, and the best way to bring a radio play to the live stage.

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Adding drama to the portrait session, in the performance work of Dublin artist, Fergus Byrne.

The piece is performed at Project as part of the performance season Between You, Me And The Four Walls, curated by Michelle Browne. More info here

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Examining the legacy of 60s counterculture while making art from the things that the everyday folks leave behind, with Dublin-based Liverpudlian artist, Richard Proffitt

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"Artisan" comics publisher, Sam Arthur, co-founder of NoBrow, on the special pleasures of traditional printing

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Susan Zelouf of “haute couture” furniture makers, zelouf+BELL, on her journey from a club singer to creator of one-off, no-expense-spared design treasures.

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Brilliant, dazzling, scintillating…some of the words that unavoidably turn up as Luke Clancy reviews a show of plugged-in and turned-on, lighting-based art at Hayward Gallery, London.

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Grim and grimmer: students at The Lir and RIAM see just how dark opera gets, on their collaboration with director, Gavin Quinn, Opera Briefs.

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Sound branding guru, John Groves, on the power of sound in selling. (RPT)

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Dublin singer songwriter Mumblin Deaf Ro makes a case for more pop songs about grief.

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Irish mag, GCN is the world’s longest running free gay magazine is celebrating its 25th birthday. Co-founder, Tonie Walsh on the life and times of GCN.

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Conducting prodigy, Killian Farrell on tackling Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion, simultaneously directing two adult choirs, a boys’ choir and the Orchestra of St. Cecelia. Killian, by the way, is 18.

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Tattooed-lady-turned-artist, Ariana Page Russell, on dermatographia, the skin condition which means her ‘ink’ is her own skin’s reaction to pressure.

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The Great Irish Dresser, caught in the wild by Sundance prize-winning “Irish Folk Furniture” director, Tony Donoghue

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Conrad Shawcross’ room at Light Show at the Hayward. The bit near the end where everything gets a bit wobbly is where I finally get all dizzy and fall over backwards.

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What colour is your hakuna matata? Disney Theatrical chief, Thomas Schumacher, on the birth of a leonine legend.

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Step inside what looks like an ordinary terraced house in Dublin’s Stoneybatter and you’ll find one of the capital’s most vital arts spaces, The Joinery.

More about The Joinery’s Fundit campaign

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Cliff Diving into the Atlantic and other inspirational moments, with glass artist, Michelle O’Donnell

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Welcome to youpop? From now on, homemade user videos of songs like Harlem Shake will contribute to a song’s position in Billboard’s Hot 100.

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Go ahead and judge a book by its cover…with the help of designer and illustrator Niall McCormack’s Irish book covers blog.

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From the Amazon jungle to the tables of Copenhagen’s Noma, Icelandic composer, Jóhann Jóhannsson, finds inspiration in farming and politics. (Part 2 of 2)

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How much do you really have to know about the IBM 1401 computer to enjoy the music of Jóhann Jóhannsson? (Part 1 of 2)

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Hacking music. Composer, Emma O’Halloran, on the premier of her work Cages, and why she sees a soldering iron in her future.

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Fail again, fail better! The surprisingly long history of the Epic Fail, with Mark O’Connell, author of a new study on our taste for bad art.