Culture File: Caitriona Joni

Catriona O'Leary on shepherding Joni Mitchell and Franz Schubert into the Irish language.

Culture File: Canice Globe

One of London's big tourist draws is Shakespeare's Globe; one of The Globe's draws is a tourguide from Mullingar

Culture File: The Last Hotel

Soprano, Claudia Boyle and composer, Donnacha Dennehy on The Last Hotel, loneliness and Irish girl band, B*witched

Culture File Weekly No 37

This Weekly, an audience with Ireland's longest reigning Emperor of Antiques, a journey down a dimly lit corridor of graphic sedition at the National Print Museum, the promise of eternity as a plastinated corpse and a heartfelt piece of pro-Bee propaganda disguised as a show for kids

Culture File: Louis Louis

The Emperor of Antiques, Louis O’Sullivan, tells Eleanor Flegg stories of some of his favourite possessions

Culture File: Death Café

Dublin's recent "Death Café" encouraged Gareth Stack to imagine what we might look for by way of a final send off

Culture File: Hedone

Mikael Jonsson had an early calling to be a chef but a biblical plague of allergies kept him out of the kitchen.

Culture File: Bees

Be they drones or queens, Mark Doherty has big love for the bees in his new apicultural comedy for kids

Culture File Weekly No 36

This Weekly we have a history of psychology and a biography of the happiness industry all wrapped into one. We listen to our inner voices, with a music that uses human physiology to keep the beat, and we make a visit to the Dublin's Merrion Square, where the nation's mutts are having their day in the sun.

Culture File: Posters

A pointed take on history told through political posters at the National Print Museum's A World to Win exhibition

Culture File: Blythman

What's for dinner? is a question investigative journalist turned food detective, Joanna Blythman, takes seriously

Culture File: Heart and breath

Biofeedback-driven music from Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry’s decoded by UCC Prof of Physiology, Ken O’Halloran

Culture File: The Doggie Do

Some old dogs and some new tricks at Dublin’s canine carnival, The Doggie Do

Culture File: Magnetism

Big art for big spaces, in curator Vaari Claffey's Magnetism show at a former Korean videotape plant in Co. Sligo

Culture File: Long Gaze Back

Sinead Gleeson, editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, talks balance, TLS, LRB & VIDA

Culture File: Templemore

Gruesome goings on in the precincts of Templemore in a the second play from Garda College neighbour, Áine Ryan.

Culture File: Clockwork

N-gauge and O-gauge, clockwork and proper steam, at a model train sanctuary at the far end of the Sheep’s Head Peninsula.

Culture File Weekly: No 34

Culture File visits two exhibitions struggling with the very idea of an exhibition - and busily try to create stimulating new hybrid shows. In Weston-Super-Mare, activist artist Banksy has created an “entry level anarchism” funfair, while at Tate Britain, Sensorium is a show bringing paintings together with sound, perfumes and chocolates.

Culture File: Agrippina

English translator of Handel's Agrippina, Amanda Holden, on putting the f-word into the mouths of operatic heroes

Culture File: Sensorium Part 2

Odette Toilette and Bernardo Fleming on the new worlds of scent at Tate Britain's multisensory show, Sensorium.

Culture File: Sensorium

Tate Britain's latest painting exhibition, Sensorium, address the ears, the nose and the tongue, as well as the eyes

Culture File: Dismaland

Bring your ears to Banksy's Dismaland in Weston-Super-Mare, “The UK’s Most disappointing New Visitor Attraction”

Culture File: Soundscapes

Exhibitions that strive to be something more this week starting with a paint 'n' sound show at UK's National Gallery