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.