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.