1001 Nights of Culture File- Some like it Cold

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40

1001 Nights of Culture File-

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40

1001 Culture Files: : L'amour

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

1001 Culture Files: Eric Whitacre's Cyber Choir

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

1001 Culture Files: Jack Dohery's Pots

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

Culture File: Fitness Tracking

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

1001 Culture Files: Music in Berlin

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

1001 Culture Files - Van Morrison's Belfast

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity

1001 Culture Files: The Caretaker

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

1001 Culture Files: Virtual Netherworlds

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

Culture File: The Wexford Carols Renewed

Luke Clancy talks to Caitriona O'Leary about her new CD, a contemporary take on The Wexford Carols featuring Tom Jones among others.

Culture File: 2014 A Cultural Review

Luke Clancy, Rachel Ní Chuinn, & Eoghan Nolan on 2014, via a 93 year old's take on death, Grand Budapest Hotel & Episodic Narrative Addicts.

Culture File: 2014 Highlights

Musician, Rachel ni Chuinn and advertising eminence, Eoghan Nolan assemble to discuss what culture they consumed this year, and how.

Culture File: Batik in Londan

Batik and the tangled colonial stories of textiles, in Brixton Market, London SW9

Culture File: Voice Box

Beating the tambourine at Voice Box, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art's own special brand of short talks event.

Culture File: The East London Renaissance

Oom Pah Pah and the East London Renaissance, with dragstar turned local historian, Jonny Woo.

Culture File: Music and Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Scottish viola-player turned composer, Sally Beamish, on turning Anglo-Saxon poetry into music.

Culture File: Outsider Comedy

Weird comes in from the cold with US comics Tim and Eric, but they're just part of a long history of outsider comedy, says Gareth Stack.

Culture File: Scarcity - Inevitable Fact or Avoidable Consequence

Is scarcity a fact of life on earth, or as carefully constructed as a seasonal drought of Frozen dolls? Jeremy Till on lack and its malcontents.

Culture File - Silences Part 4

In the final part of our series on silence, Amanda Coogan on the scarce silences of her childhood.

Culture File - Where is the Real London?

Where is the real London? More like, is London real, we discover when Booker nominated novelist, Tom McCarthy invites us to meet him at Pret A Manger. (part 1 of 2)

Culture File - The Most Beautiful Place in London?

Is Pret A Manger the most beautiful place in London? Novelist and art newspaper creator, Tom McCarthy makes a case. (Part 2 of 2)

Culture File: St. Mel's Cathedral Remade

Up from the ashe of the fire-ravaged St Mel’s Cathedral in Longford springs craftsmanship on a medieval scale.

Culture File: Culwick Choral Society

Mother and son choristers, Elizabeth and Donal McCormack, introduce Ireland's oldest, continuously singing choir, The Culwick Choral Society - which has been singing on Thursday for over a century.

Culture File: SARCy Silence

Are we looking for silence in all the wrong places? Gareth Stack expands his collection of silences at Belfast's SARC (part 3 of 4)

Culture File: Poetryfilm

Poetryfilm: the genre where words & images do what the MBA in your life calls leveraging each other's strengths.

Culture File: RIAM War Requiem

Conductor, James Cavanagh, on the Royal Irish Academy of Music's long march on Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

Culture File - War Requiem

Conductor, James Cavanagh, on the Royal Irish Academy of Music's long march on Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

Culture File - Atom Tick

Experimental comedy duo, James Moran and Stephane Hanly, aim to remove any pressure on audiences to laugh in their "Arthouse comedy" show, Atom Tick.

Culture File: The House of Diehl

Philosopher-turned fashion designer, Roman Milišic, on his couture-to-children's books empire of invention, The House of Diehl.

Culture File: Irish mezzo-soprano, Rachel Kelly

Irish mezzo-soprano, Rachel Kelly, on life as a young singer with The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.

Culture File - Leonard Elschenbroich

Cellist, Leonard Elschenbroich on music, tears and some useful tricks with clingfilm.

Culture File - Mark Wallinger

Wearing a bear suit & owning a racehorse are just two activities designated art by Turner-prize winning Essex boy, Mark Wallinger.

Culture File - Silence 1 Kevin Barry

In the first part of a Culture File series on silence, writer Kevin Barry talks about quiet and writing.

Culture File - Sound Symbolism and Taste

Sound symbolism: what the name of a food can tell you about eating it, with linguist and computer scientist, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File: Shopping in Mayfair for Persian Delights

A shopping trip into the Persian heartlands of Mayfair, with the linguist and foodie, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File - Ketchup

The long and starry voyage of "ketchup" to the menus of the Western World, according to linguist, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File: Food linguistics

Applying science (linguistics to be precise) to your restaurant menu Dan Jurafsky on what he's learned about food, culture & language by going a la carte.

Culture File: Cello Songs with Vyvienne Long

For Halloween, Vyvienne Long settles in by the crackling log fire, nibble on some Barnbrack and treats us to nothing scarier than a Beatles covers.

Culture File: Casting Humans in Plaster

Fainting, and other hazards of casting humans in plaster, at the studio of Skibbereen artist, Ian Wright.

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Wexford Festival percussionist and collector, Noel Eccles, takes a mallet to his ever growing arsenal of things that go bang, boom and tinkle.

Culture File: Foraging for Mushrooms

In search of some Boletus edulis, or even a few Agaricus campestris, with the mushroom hunters of Ballyhoura woods.

Culture File - Music from Baroque to Wiggy

From Baroque and early music to the wiggiest, freest jazz and improv, no music is out of bounds for husband and wife duo, Homburger/Guy.

Culture File: Wexford Festival Opera

Wexford Festival Opera's AD, David Agler, on a seasonal, locavore joy to equal the advent of ceps amongst sodden leaves.

Culture File: Wexford Festival Opera

WFO's David Agler, on how the special furrow that Wexford carved out - rediscovering lost operatic gems - has started to become crowded.

Culture File: Greek instrument maker

Handmade Greek instrument maker, Marcos Ekonimides, on the economics -- and the religion of --maintaining a millennia old craft.

Culture File: Silent Night At Wexford Festival Opera

Is the 21st century the "American opera" century? Yes, according to WFO's Silent Night conductor, Michael Christie.

Culture File - Sean Lynch Buile Suibhne

Sean Lynch's latest show, For The Birds, brings the myth of Buile Suibhne (and a cow and her calf) into the gallery.

Culture File: Stone Carvers and Car Crushing

Crushing Sean Fitzpatrick's beamer & John Ruskin's taste for Irish stone carving, in part 2 of our interview with artist, Sean Lynch.

Culture File - DeLorean- Sean Lynch

Exploring the many afterlives of the Delorean DMC12, with Ireland's representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Sean Lynch.

Culture File - Music in Tallaght Hospital

The arts program at Tallaght Hospital regularly stages musical encounters, but also commissions new music exploring illness, such as Stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.

Culture File: Bob Marley as Gaeilge

Liam O'Maonlai and friends sings the songs of Bob Marley....as Gaeilge, in Amhráin Na Saoirse.

Culture File: Ensemble Eriu

Some describe Ensemble Ériu as a Minimalist jazz-trad septet. But that's just the sort of thing some people would do.

Culture File: Harry Clarke in Ballinrobe

Among the lilacs, the greens, the scarlets & the deep, deep blues of Harry Clarke’s stained glass at St Mary’s Church in Ballinrobe.

Culture File: Limerick Electronic Music Festival

If you felt the earth move last weekend, it could be down to the sub-bass activities of Limerick "beats" music festival, Prima Volta.

Culture File - George Fleeton

Apple Genius Bar v. Così fan tutte: evolving standards of genius, with Mozart commentator, George Fleeton.

Culture File: Branding in Terrorism

The growing importance of branding in terrorism, with author and counter-terrorism analyst, Artur Beifuss.

Culture File: Designing Against Extremism

Could areas such as graphic design, branding & even performance art produce new ways of combating extremism?

Culture File: Comedy Podcasts

There is no downside for comedians starting podcasts. Or is there? Gearoid Farrelly on the world of the laughcast. (Part 2 of 2)

Culture File - Podcasting Comic

Irish comic, Gearoid Farrelly, on the exploding world of the comedian podcast.

Culture File - Tim Crouch

Tim Crouch examines the fine print on the contract between audience and performer at the theatre.

Culture File - Arts to Business

What's behind the recent demise of many of Dublin's independent art spaces?

Culture File: Tiki Pop

Tiki Pop writer and curator, Sven Kirsten, on Don the Beachcomber and his rival Vic the Trader - once kings of the tiki scene.

Culture File - Tiki Pop

“America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise” in new book and an exhibition of the 20th century style urban archeologist, Sven Kirsten, calls Tiki Pop.

Culture Night: Data Driven Artefacts

Feel the homicide rate with CIT's Trevor Hogan, whose "data driven artefacts" make data you can touch.

Culture File: Dublin's Swastika Laundry

Dublin's Swastika Laundry (by way of Heinrich Boll and Charles Manson) as Luke McManus continues his search for Nazi branding gold.

Culture File: Infamous Branding

Luke McManus to investigate the enduring power to communicate of some of history’s most infamous branding.

Culture File: Emer McBride's Words on Stage

Eimear McBride’s syntactically promiscuous, but steadfastly prizewinning debut novel has defeated many. But not Corn Exchange Theatre Co.

Culture File: Resonances - Sound and Glass

Vibrating to the ancient mystery of the Solfeggio frequencies, in Resonance, a sound and glass show at The National Craft Gallery.

Culture File - De Snob your Coffee

James Hoffman, author of The World Atlas of Coffee, on de-snobbing snobby coffee.

Culture File- Mr. Men in Edinburgh

Comedian, Conor O’Toole on the Edinburgh Freestival and his Trans-friendly take on Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men.

Culture File: Open Source Aran Sweater

"Open Source Aran Sweater" is a project to create an archive of Aran knitting as part of the global initiative, Cut, Make, Do.

Culture File: Collating the IT Information Collectors

Do you know where your data is? Aisling Kelliher on data collection, inference engines and good old fashioned cookies.

Culture File - The Company

Dublin Fringe Festival kingpins, The Company, reboot Aeschylus The Oresteia as a nightmare of social anxiety.

Culture File - 26 mixes for Geocache

A radical approach to audience building: hide cassettes of experimental music at locations in rural England for anyone with a GPS device to track down.

Culture File: IYO's Rape of Lucretia

Conductor, Stephen Barlow, on the acid colours of Benjamin Britten’s grim, The Rape of Lucretia, which tours in a new production from IYO.

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Grassy acres of gurning dancers, TEDy pep talks & cava bars? Expect none of that at Enniskillen Beckett Festival.

Culture File - Svetlana Rudenko

Synesthesia, the politics of contemporary Ukraine and the legacy of John Field, with Wicklow-based pianist, Svetlana Rudenko.

Culture File - The moth and Butterfly

Culture File brings its “storynet” (aka microphone) to Galway storytelling club, Moth and Butterfly, to meet instigator, Órla McGovern.

Culture File - The Gillie of Lough Mask

The underwater landscape of Lough Mask and the fish that hide there, with gillie Michael Harnesse.

Culture File: Performance Psychology

Fight, flight and the concert pianist, with performance psychologist, Jaime Diaz.

Culture File: Popical Island Music Collective

The bliss of having your own venue, as enjoyed by Dublin musical collective, Popical Island.

Culture File: The Golden Section

The ancient glint of the golden section in music and painting, with artist, Maurice Quillinan.

Culture File: Rehearsed Readings with Druid

“A space to do our thinking out loud…with an audience,” is how Druid’s Thomas Conway describes the company’s program of rehearsed readings.

Culture File: Crowdfunding Books

The power of the hive with Alys Fowler, whose next apicultural love letter of a book is being crowdfunded via internet publisher, Unbound.

Culture File: Sewing Computers

Artist-engineer, Nora O Murchú, is using LilyPad to teach young girls to sew computers. Because that’s a thing.

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IMMA celebrates the work of Tropicália artist, Hélio Oiticica, with a participatory festival of food and fun. Artist, Fiona Hallinan, walks the garden with us.

Culture File - The Three Body Problem

Artist, Isabel Nolan, guides us through the speculative world of her work "The Three Body Problem" - a story about an imaginary planet lit by three suns

Culture File- Isobel Nolan - The Weakened Eye of Day

Irish artist, Isabel Nolan, on her solo show at IMMA, the Thomas Hardy inspired, The Weakened Eye of Day.

Culture File- Branar

Is it simple? Is it magical? Is it beautiful? Testing new children's theatre with Galway company, Branar.

Culture File - Cold Brew

If you think your latte takes too faffing long now, wait till you get a shot of 12-hour brewed "cold press" joe.

Culture File - Christine Tobin Sings Leonard Cohen

Christine Tobin on what might attract "a jazzer" to simple, shiny Leonard Cohen gems such as Susanne and Famous Blue Raincoat.

Culture File - Blue Teapot

ID is the latest from Galway’s Blue Teapot, a company that works with people with a disability to produce theatre with unique perspectives.

Culture File - Ballyturk

Mikel Murfi, who stars alongside Cillian Murphy in Ballyturk, on the real meaning of "secret theatre".

Culture File - The Nore Lass

On the River Nore in 1905, among the waterway's cots, punts and wherries, one vessel stood out: The Nore Lass.

Culture File - Craft Cider

How d'ya like them apples? A growing band of Irish cider producers are encouraging us make cider "the wine of Ireland."

Culture File - Liv O'Donoghue

Unexpected couplings and translated messages the latest from Hiberno-Norwegian choreographer, Liv O'Donoghue, Hear Me Sing Your Song.

Culture File - 3epkano

Bringing sounds to the silent city in 3epkano's latest creation, a new score of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Culture FIle - The Mentalist

Culture File looks into the eyes, the eyes, not around in the eyes, into the eyes...of mentalist, Shane Gillen.

Culture File - The Globe goes to Kilkenny

Emma Pallant and Simon Bubb of Shakespeare Globe theatre company on what makes an authentically authentic As You Like It.

Culture File - Alan Moore

Is comics artist supreme, Alan Moore's latest venture a YouTube for comics? Aisling Kelliher, our regular tech correspondent, decodes Eletricomics.

Culture File - The Price at the Gate

The early gramophone fad of the laughing 78s finds into way into director, Doug Hughes' Gate production of Miller's The Price

Culture File: Composing for Video Games

Chiptune artist, Chipzel, on accidentally becoming an indie video game composer.

Culture File: Alternative Hedonism

Philosopher, Kate Soper, on how "alternative hedonism" might inspire a new radical creativity in humanity - and save the planet. Nice.

Culture File: What is Nature?

What is nature? — and other tricky questions in the burgeoning field of eco-criticism.

Culture File: Ireland and Ecocriticism

Ireland and Ecocriticism is a conference looking at the growth area not just of eco-criticism, but of Irish eco-criticism.

Culture File: Ballyturk by Enda Walsh

Culture File: Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea on ritual, the revealed and the hidden, in theatre and in life.

Culture File - Lynched

Finding common cause between classic acts like Crass or Rudimentary Peni and the Irish ballad tradition, with Dublin band, Lynched.

Culture File - London's Chewing Gum Man

The Chewing Gum Man is a London street artist whose work involves "illuminating" discarded gum. Now he's created a chewing gum trail to the very doors of Tate Modern.

Culture File - Soprano Helene Hutchinson

It’s not a competition you know. But it is. Soprano, Helene Hutchinson on feiseanna, nerves and the singing life.

Culture File: Artificial Intelligence

Prof Aisling Kelliher sniffs out grade inflation in Alan Turing classic test for artificial intelligence.

Culture File - Dawn of Midi

The piano trio gets a quantum makeover courtesy of Brooklyn outfit, Dawn of Midi.

Culture File - Ethnography of the New York Times

Nikki Usher on her ethnographic study of life inside the New York Times.

Culture File - Dawn of Midi

The piano trio gets a quantum makeover courtesy of Brooklyn outfit, Dawn of Midi.

Culture File: City of Mahagonny

From Alaska to Alabama, Brecht and Weill’s mystical-satirical geography mapped onto Dublin for a Rough Magic / Opera Theatre Company co-pro.

Culture File: Calvin and Hobbes

Meet Stephan Pastis, the cartoonist who coaxed Calvin and Hobbes' creator, Bill Watterson (briefly) out of retirement.

Culture File - Eva Rothschild- 1

Take a room of fragile sculpture, add small boys, leave for ten minutes, then pick up the pieces. Eva Rothschild's Art recipes.

Culture File - Prepared Piano

The art of the prepared piano, with Volker Bertelmann, better know to the world as Hauschka.

Culture File - Herb Garden Mixology

How the flavours of an East Cork herb garden end up in the drinks of one of (officially) the world's greatest mixologists.

Culture File - Eva Biennale

Could a call to "Google that stuff" be the main imperative in contemporary art?

Culture File: ICO/ Ballet Carmen

Carmen goes to Limerick, with the help of Irish Chamber Orchestra and Ballet Ireland.

Culture File: Salon du Chat

Intense boredom at a dinner party lead to the founding of Salon du Chat, described by its founders as a "conversation installation".

Culture File: Rock definitions

If you’d struggle to tell your math rock definitively from your post rock, perhaps Dublin band, Alarmist can help...

Culture File: The Cardinals - Comedy

The transformative power of longform improv comedy with Dublin pioneers, The Cardinals.

Culture File: Rhubarb

Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb. With the pink stalks back in gardens and shops, we meet our favourite Scottish rhubarbophiles.

Culture File: New Irish Opera - The Invader

The first new Irish opera to premiere at Theatre Royal Waterford for more than 200 years is Eric Sweeney's The Invader.

Culture File: Hacking Tech

Off-the-shelf technologies often require hacking to make them useful, according to SMARTlab's Prof Lizbeth Goodman.

Culture File: The Butter Vikings

Patrik Johansson and Margit Richert, known as the Butter Vikings, on making the butter spread in the world's greatest restaurants.

Culture File: Ballymaloe Litfest

Reigning World No 1chef, Noma's René Redzepi, on regaining the "world's best restaurant" title.

Culture File: The Little Shows That Could

Theatre director, David Horan, on making those little shows that could.

Culture FIle - Race and the Irish Screen

What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard in an Irish crime series, ever be just a guard?

Culture File: Music for WG Sebald

The Caretaker on the perfect soundtrack of audio patina, ghostly whir and half-remembered airs for the writings of WG Sebald.

Culture File: Memory, Music and The Shining

Composer and musician, The Caretaker, on memory, music and The Shining.

Culture File - Virtual Reality

Culture File tours some virtual netherworlds, with the help of Artists, Jesse Jones and Caroline Campbell and an Oculus VR headset.

Culture File: Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence

Travel back in time to fondle again mementoes of a history that never happened, at Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence, created to honours the characters of his novel.

Culture File - Hipsters

Has the hipster gone the way of the yuppy, or is there life still in the cliche of bikes and beards?

Culture File: Football and Masculinity

Rob Ward on football, fandom and what might be keeping some of the world’s top players silent on their sexuality.

Culture File: Changes in Dublin Speech

Prof Raymond on the most recent changes in Dublin speech, including the emerging style of pronouncing "dress" as "drass".

Culture File: Why boys and girls speak differently.

Why boys and girls speak differently, with Irish accents specialist, Prof Raymond Hickey.

Culture File: The great Dublin vowel shift

The great Dublin vowel shift of the 1990s with its closest observer, Prof Raymond Hickey

Culture File: Speaking Proper

Why don’t people speak like what they used to? Like, what’s with the funny accents, the awful, artificial and just plain wrong pro-noun-ciations? Prof Raymond Hickey has some ideas.

Culture File: Nixon in China

Culture File: Community Scratch Games

Put the needle pon the record with Jimmy Penguin, Alex 'Oslo Flow' Plato and Limerick’s own, Moyross Youth Crew at this year's Community Skratch Games in the GWC.

Culture File - Nuala O'Donovan's Sculpture

Ceramicist, Nuala O’Donovan’s sculpture finds inspiration in the mathematics of nature.

Culture File - Food and Music Pairing

The art of food and music pairing, with San Francisco food blogging duo, Turntablekitchen.com

Culture File - A Passion for Passions

A passion for Passions. Scottish Catholic composer, James MacMillan premiers his second passion in Amsterdam.

Culture File - Organic Sounds

Organic sounds: choosing an instrument and why perhaps it shouldn't be the organ, with master of the instrument, Professor Gerard Gillen.

Culture File: Record Shop Gay

What's in a consonant? Record Shop Day, the global festival of indie records shops, gets an Irish LGBT makeover to create Record Shop Gay.

Culture File: Cheap Computing, Rasberry Pi

Low consequence environments and other benefits of cheap computing, with Eben Upton, co-creator of the tiny, hackworthy computer, Raspberry Pi.

Culture File: Do You Play Enough?

Recruiting players right now is a hunting-through-the-nighttime streets mass game experience called Journey to the End of the Night. Up for it?

Culture File: Hearing Colours

Playing purple, hearing green and other habits of the synesthesiac composer, Alexander Scriabin, with pianist, Ivan Illic

Culture File - Ivan Illic - Part 1

It's All Good! Pianist, Ivan Illic on what we learn when we listen to Scriabin, Morton Feldman and John Cage alongside each other.

Culture File: TCD MPhil Composition Concert

Arvo Pärt, Stravinsky, and more surprisingly, the films of Charlize Theron, are some of the influences at play in TCD's MPhil in Composition Graduate concert.

Culture File: Media in India

Artist, Sheela Gowda explains India (and why Hindu deities can own property) via her newspaper cutup work, The Chronic Chronicle.

Culture File: Keralan Festival of New Year

Put your best foot forward into Vishu, the Keralan Festival of New Year, with chef Saji Mathai of Dublin’s Jaipur Restaurants.

Luke Clancy - Record Shops of Dublin

Gerry O'Boyle of Tower Records and Garry O'Neill on the record shops of Dublin.

Culture File - The Engagement Game Lab

Steve Walter runs The Engagement Game Lab, where they develop games that attempt to lure everyday folks into steering how their world is planned and run.

How “From Lemass To Ming – A History of Drugs in Ireland” a lecture by Graham Ryall inspired the work of Dublin company, TheatreCLUB.

How “From Lemass To Ming – A History of Drugs in Ireland” a lecture by Graham Ryall inspired the work of Dublin company, TheatreCLUB.

Combining some of the more salubrious aspects of Electronic Dance Music with a 5K run, Electric Run is part of a wave of post-rave events that turn fitness into multisensory entertainment.

Combining some of the more salubrious aspects of Electronic Dance Music with a 5K run, Electric Run is part of a wave of post-rave events that turn fitness into multisensory entertainment.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Muppet, with muppet superfans, Bunny, Liam Geraghty and Regan Hutchins.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Muppet, with muppet superfans, Bunny, Liam Geraghty and Regan Hutchins.

Culture File: Bach and Status Quo

Could Status Quo be as useful as Bach when it comes to musical healing? Cellist, Matthew Barley on universal music.

Culture File: War House Puppetry

A horse has the lung capacity of three humans, so of course it takes a team of three to breath life into Joey, the star of War Horse.

Culture File - Joseph Walsh Furniture Design

Designer and maker, Joseph Walsh, best known for furniture that are almost equal parts elaborate theatrical spectacle and somewhere to sit, shows Eleanor Flegg around his Co Cork studio.

Culture File - Touch Lesley Millar

Do you remember when the word touch was almost never followed by the word screen? Curator, author, Lesley Millar, on the lost importance of touch

Culture File - Trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger

The Golden Rules of Brass, and other trumpeter's tales with Swedish virtuoso, Håkan Hardenberger.

Culture File: Dream Brands

If brands are "over" how come Apple still sells so many shiny, expensive dreams? Prof Itamar Simonson explains the exception that proves the rule.

Culture File - Marketing and Social Media

In the age of Amazon, Yelp and social shopping, telling people what they should want is getting harder than ever, suggests Stanford marketing professor, Itamar Simonson.

Culture File - Whistleblast Quartet

Whistleblast Quartet's French horn player, Mary Curran on re-wiring the orchestral classics for the young music lover - who may not even know yet they're a young music lover.

Culture File - Daffodil Choreography

A hymn to the daffodils - and their pickers - with Dutch "conceptual choreographer" Edd Schouten.

Culture File - Ensemble Eriu

Some describe Ensemble Eriu as a minimalist jazz-trad septet. But careful with the M-word around the band's Neil O'Loghlen and Jack Talty.

Culture File - Repair Café

Hack, Upcycle or Fix? Ireland's first Repair Café in Sandymount Dublin.

Culture File: A Foreigner in Hollywood

Light is life - it's an unashamedly American event except when it comes to the Oscar for best cinematographer.

Culture File - Photography Old and New

Chemical bath or digital filter? Old and new photographic techniques slug it out for the eyeballs of the 21st century.

Culture File - Trevor Cox Sonic Wonderland 3

What key is your cave in? Our final trip with Trevor Cox into the heart of Sonic Wonderland is all very Stone Age

Culture File - Trevor Cox Sonic Wonderland 2

Bach and reverberation, as well as the world's best sounding sand with acoustician, Trevor Cox.

Culture File - Trevor Cox Sound World 1

Bring you ears to Sonic Wonderland, as acoustician Trevor Cox conjures up the audio highlights of Planet Earth.

Culture File - Teddy Bears at the Ark

International ursine celebrities from Pooh to Yogi and beyond hit Dublin for the bear exhibition, Teddy Bear Stories, at the Ark.

Culture File: Photographer, John Myers

An overnight sensation after 40 years. Photographer, John Myers, remembers the photographs he took in a West Midlands suburb in the 1970s.

Culture File - Caroline Parker First Diva of Sign

Deaf actor, Caroline Parker, signs her way through the supersized musical emotions in her stage show, Signs of a Diva.

Culture File - Aisling Bea 2

Deaf actor, Caroline Parker, signs her way through the supersized musical emotions in her stage show, Signs of a Diva.

Culture File - Aisling Bea

Kildare-born comedian, Aisling Bea, on funny voices, interrupting yourself and the craft of standup.

Culture File - Collaborations

The mashup the world has been waiting for? Choral director, Robbie Blake and choreographer Janna Kemperman, get collaborating.

Irish 3D animation keyframe, David O’Reilly, on creating...

Irish 3D animation keyframe, David O’Reilly, on creating an imaginary potty-mouthed computer game for Spike Jonze’s Her.

Culture File - Animation - Her

Irish 3D animation keyframe, David O'Reilly, on creating an imaginary potty-mouthed computer game for Spike Jonze's Her.

Martin Creed explains how to put up with it if your work...

Martin Creed explains how to put up with it if your work sometimes looks like Minimalism, and other essential skills of the contemporary artist.

Culture File - Martin Creed What's the Point of It?

Martin Creed explains how to put up with it if your work sometimes looks like Minimalism, and other essential skills of the contemporary artist.

Pawing the glass cases at TCD’s Long Room with Dr Ita...

Pawing the glass cases at TCD’s Long Room with Dr Ita Beausang, biographer of Irish composer, Ina Boyle.

Culture File - Ina Boyle papers

Pawing the glass cases at TCD's Long Room with Dr Ita Beausang, biographer of Irish composer, Ina Boyle.

Dancing feet hit the road as director-writer, Joe O’Byrne and...

Dancing feet hit the road as director-writer, Joe O’Byrne and choreographer, Breandán de Gallaí’s music and dance take on Easter 1916, The Rising, starts a national tour.

Culture File - The Rising

Dancing feet hit the road as director-writer, Joe O’Byrne and choreographer, Breandán de Gallaí's music and dance take on Easter 1916, The Rising, starts a national tour.

The art of the title with animator, Paul O’Muiris, creator...

The art of the title with animator, Paul O’Muiris, creator of The Ledge End of Phil (from Accounting).

Culture File: The Art of the Title

The art of the title with animator, Paul O'Muiris, creator of The Ledge End of Phil (from Accounting).

Diving headlong into the dressing-up box with Galway’s...

Diving headlong into the dressing-up box with Galway’s Steampunk and Victoriana evangelists.

Culture File: Steampunk in Galwy

Diving headlong into the dressing-up box with Galway's Steampunk and Victoriana evangelists.

A drowned piano and a lost folk hero, commemorated in song by...

A drowned piano and a lost folk hero, commemorated in song by Lisa O’Neill.

Culture File - Lisa O'Neill

A drowned piano and a lost folk hero, commemorated in song by Lisa O'Neill.

Artist, Andrea Büttner on why the art world is like a religious...

Artist, Andrea Büttner on why the art world is like a religious order.

Culture File - Andrea Buttner

Artist, Andrea Büttner on why the art world of like a religious order.

The untapped comedy power of maths, with Mark Cantan, the...

The untapped comedy power of maths, with Mark Cantan, the mathematician / playwright behind Rough Magic’s “comrom” Jezebel

Cultur File - Math Humour

The untapped comedy power of maths, with Mark Cantan, the mathematician / playwright behind Rough Magic's "comrom" Jezebel

Irish Chamber Orchestra and director-writer, Patrick Mason, team...

Irish Chamber Orchestra and director-writer, Patrick Mason, team up to tell the story of Tchaikovsky from his brother, Modest’s point of view.

Culture File: Tchaikovsky

Irish Chamber Orchestra and director-writer, Patrick Mason, team up to tell the story of Tchaikovsky from his brother, Modest's point of view.

Chaos and the mathematic of the ancients hookup in the work of...

Chaos and the mathematic of the ancients hookup in the work of contemporary glass artist, Max Jacquard.

Culture File - Max Jacquard

Chaos and the mathematic of the ancients hookup in the work of contemporary glass artist, Max Jacquard.

What happens to the book thief in a world of Kindles and DRM?

What happens to the book thief in a world of Kindles and DRM?

Culture File - The Book Thief

What happens to the book thief in a world of Kindles and DRM?

Digital culture soothsayer, Prof Henry Jenkins, on the power of...

Digital culture soothsayer, Prof Henry Jenkins, on the power of sharing.

Exorcising the bad association of chalk and blackboard with...

Exorcising the bad association of chalk and blackboard with Jeffrey Gormly, artist in residence in Waterford Regional Hospital.

Culture File - The Power of Sharing

Digital culture soothsayer, Prof Henry Jenkins, on the power of sharing.

Culture File - Waterford Regional Hospital Artist

Exorcising the bad association of chalk and blackboard with Jeffrey Gormly, artist in residence in Waterford Regional Hospital.

Good goods in little jars, with jam revivalist, Theresa Storey...

Good goods in little jars, with jam revivalist, Theresa Storey of Limerick’s The Green Apron.

Culture File: Jam

Good goods in little jars, with jam revivalist, Theresa Storey of Limerick's The Green Apron.

Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, meditates on the...

Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, meditates on the sympathies between working in ceramics or metal, and putting pen to paper.

Culture File - Paula Meehan on poetry and craft

Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, meditates on the sympathies between working in ceramics or metal, and putting pen to paper.

Why the Suffragettes hated (and Charles Darwin loved) the orchid...

Why the Suffragettes hated (and Charles Darwin loved) the orchid above all flowers.

Culture File - Flowers 3- Orchids

Why the Suffragettes hated (and Charles Darwin loved) the orchid above all flowers.

The Dutch nation’s romance with the tulip and why it might...

The Dutch nation’s romance with the tulip and why it might not have ended quite as badly as you think.

Consider the lilies, but don’t forget the roses. Flowers...

Consider the lilies, but don’t forget the roses. Flowers as an index for human history and culture, with historian Jennifer Potter.

Culture File: Tulips

The Dutch nation's romance with the tulip and why it might not have ended quite as badly as you think.

Culture File: Flowers in History

Consider the lilies, but don't forget the roses. Flowers as an index for human history and culture, with historian Jennifer Potter.

Walking the dog, Bournemouth style, with photographer and author...

Walking the dog, Bournemouth style, with photographer and author of The Art of Walking, David Evan.

Culture File - The Art of Walking

Walking the dog, Bournemouth style, with photographer and author of The Art of Walking, David Evan.

Mo Willems, the creator of the world’s only celebrity...

Mo Willems, the creator of the world’s only celebrity pigeon, on why the internet is the enemy of creativity.

Culture File: Celebrity Pigeon

Mo Willems, the creator of the world's only celebrity pigeon, on why the internet is the enemy of creativity.

Kirsti O’Kelly of Silver Darlings on introducing Finnish...

Kirsti O’Kelly of Silver Darlings on introducing Finnish recipes to Killybegs herring.

Culture File - Loaves and Fishes 2 - Silver Darlings

Kirsti O Kelly of Silver Darlings on introducing Finnish recipes to Killybegs herring.

Culture File - Loaves and Fishes Special Part1

Joe Fitzmaurice of Cloughjordan Wood Fired Bakery on sourdough, long fermentation and the pursuit of the perfect loaf.

Making Ireland safe for opera with conductor and impresario...

Making Ireland safe for opera with conductor and impresario Fergus Sheil, who latest plans involve getting an airplane on stage for Adam’s Nixon In China.

Culture File - Nixon in China in Ireland

Making Ireland safe for opera with conductor and impresario Fergus Sheil, who latest plans involve getting an airplane on stage for Adam's Nixon In China.

Music for Galway’s forthcoming programme and the link...

Music for Galway’s forthcoming programme and the link between Schoenberg and Jerry Springer

Culture File - Lori Lixenberg

Music for Galway's forthcoming programme and the link between Schoenberg and Jerry Springer

Culture File - Classical Music Online 4

Prof Aisling Kelliher on why digital audio compression standards, such as mp3 or flac, are both sexy and fun.

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music,...

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music, on the response of Deutsche Grammophon to the era of online music

Culture File: Deutsche Grammophon

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music, on the response of Deutsche Grammophon to the era of online music

Culture File - Classical Music Online 3

Ian Willis comes to bury the CD - and to praise it. He works with Naxos' classical streaming library, but also runs a CD shop.

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music,...

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music, on the response of Deutsche Grammophon to the era of online music

Culture File: Deutsche Grammophon

Wim Jenkins, Director of Digital, Classical at Universal Music, on the response of Deutsche Grammophon to the era of online music

Culture File’s survey of the online classical music sector...

Culture File’s survey of the online classical music sector begins with the man who is bringing HD audio files to the masses, Qobuz’s Yves Riesel

Culture File - Classical Music Online 1

Culture File's survey of the online classical music sector begins with the man who is bringing HD audio files to the masses, Qobuz's Yves Riesel