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Nice little video of Curious Broadcast’s Earcel 2013 art radio/radio art event.

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Dave Flynn, founder of Clare Memory Orchestra, on building an orchestra for playing from memory.

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Ultrasounds, a choir made up of staff at the Cork University Maternity Hospital, prepares for the inaugural Workplace Choir of the Year competition.

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A new music-meets-poetry-meets-lecture project, Everlasting Voices, aims to perform Yeats’ poems in an authentic manner, chanting them as he demanded.

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How (and indeed) why have we turned opening our new gadgets into an art form? Unboxing videos decoded.

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Icelandic band, Amiina and children of 6th class in Cork Educate Together get to know the “venerable flower of honey essence” in Cork Opera House’s Gamiina project.

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You can leave the band, but you’re always a Felice Brother. Simone Felice on his old band, and his new music.

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What’s the real cost of a culture of super-fast, super-cheap fashion? Covadonga O’Shea, official biographer of Amancio Ortega, on the Zara’s founder’s global impact. (Part 2 of 2)

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How Zara changed fashion forever, with Covadonga O’Shea, biographer of the reclusive Spanish billionaire behind a fashion revolution, Amancio Ortega. (Part 1 of 2)

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The traditional Irish stone wall is honoured in Co. Carlow by a gathering of international artists who work… in wood.

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Irish history through the medium of trad dance in The Rising by director Joe O’Byrne & choreographer, Brendán De Gallaí.

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Could a computer make art? Aisling Kelliher on the uncertain new horizons of quantum computing.

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The latest pages from the diaries of @thisispopbaby’s Phillip McMahon, playwright, director…and worrier.

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Curator and designer, Jonathan Legge, on the copper and latex vase he championed for the photographic design exhibition, Living with Design.

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Artist, Rita Duffy, guides us through the reborn Derry City Shirt Factory that’s home to a summer of satirical shirt-themed art projects.

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A dreamy drive through the Wicklow mountains with Caoimhín Ó’Raghallaigh on the minibus stereo, and other facets of the landscape soundtracking project, Heterodyne.

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Blanaid Murphy on directing the 100 voices of Handel’s ‘other’ oratorio, Israel In Egypt.

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Just what is it that makes Hungarian choral music so different, so appealing? Conductor, Roisin Blunnie, has some ideas.

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The tale of James Joyce’s little book that nearly never was, Dubliners, told by writer and actor, Declan Gorman, in The Dubliners Dilemma

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Basset clarinettist Jonathan Sage demos that extra junk in the trunk that gives his instrument its unique sound.