Culture File: Wonder.land

Moira Buffini, writer and lyricist on Damon Albarn musical, Wonder.land, on the anxieties of an online world

Culture File: Gilles Peterson on Sun Ra

Gilles Peterson on the life, music and astral voyages of composer and jazz pioneer, Sun Ra.

Culture File: Data Obfuscation 1

Artists, academics and technologist are working to regain a click or two of privacy via data obfuscation.

Culture File: Data Obfuscation 2

Gender fluidity, plus the pioneering work of Helen Nissenbaum, in the second part of our data obfuscation special

Culture File: Hearsay 2015

Audio nerds, radio heads and podcast addicts takeover Kilfinane, Co Limerick, for the Hearsay 2015 audio festival.

Culture File: Tequila

Mexican ambassador, Carlos García de Alba on why you should never slam, skull, or generally rush tequila

Culture File Weekly No 45

This Weekly, we practice, tequila connoisseurship with Mexican ambassador, Carlos García de Alba, attend our first eSports event and discover why computer-based sports are ready to conquer the world; and we meet Prof Christopher Frayling, the pop culture polymath, who's rethinking what we should teach at art schools.

Culture File: Siobhan Davies Dance

Usain Bolt's greatest 10 seconds were the inspiration for the latest work from UK choreographer, Siobhan Davies

Culture File: Frayling Part 2

What should be in an artist's survival pack on leaving art college? Prof Christopher Frayling has some ideas

Culture File: Frayling Part 1

Why craft needs a new vocabulary, according to Prof Christopher Frayling, author of On Craftsmanship

Culture File: League Of Legends

Meet the players, the cosplayers and casters of Ireland's nascent eSports scene. Bring your transcendent sword.

Culture File: Autumn in Italy, Day 5

Marilyn Monroe accidentally invented the most famous myth about white fungus...

Culture File Weekly No 44

This Weekly, we are reporting from Northern Italy, where this year's Milano Expo has stoked a conversation about the future of food, and questions about where our appetites and the food industry's development are taking the world.

Culture File: Autumn in Italy Day 4

Giorgio Cassari on a remarkable rebel who caused a revolution in Italian wine in the 70s

Culture File: Autumn in Italy, Day 3

Ellen Cranitch heads into the heart of multi-national mega-attraction, Expo Milano 2015

Culture File: Autumn in Italy, Day 2

The Piedmontese village that's transforming into a Rudolph Steiner-influenced vegan resort

Culture File: Autumn in Italy - Intro

"Autumn in Italy" begins with the hunt for sustainable food at Milan Expo and "white gold" at Alba Truffle Fair

Culture File: Richard Gorman

Milan-based Irish artist, Richard Gorman, on designing scarves for Hermes and the life of an artist in exile.

Culture File Weekly No 43

This weekly, we visit cemeteries in Oaxaca and Co Cork; then it's out into the lanes of Kinsale in search of shades with colour theorist, Katherine Boucher-Beug; avant ventriloquist, Nina Conti introduces us to her inner voices, and we wonder why playwright and labour activist Eva Gore Booth is so little celebrated

A Lifetime in Cheese

Did Veronica Steele's 1970s washed rind innovation, Milleens cheese, create the blueprint for Irish artisan food?

Culture File: Gore Booth

Cathy Leeney on how revolutionary playwright, Eva Gore Booth, is too often overlooked from literary history

Culture File: Hiberno Mexican Graveyards

Pass over to another realm via a show of Mexican-Irish cemetery photography at the IGS's Octagon Room

Culture File: Nina Conti

If ventriloquism still lives in 2015, one woman can take a big chunk of the credit: Nina Conti

Culture File: Colour Kinsale

Artist and colour theorist, Katherine Boucher-Beug forages a blue that can only be found hiding behind barn doors

Culture File Weekly No 42

Culture File Weekly No 42 involves a dirty secret to do with model trains, a celebration of George Boole in the form of a pudding; some important info about the term Czechlands, and Richard Herring's career-long exploration of the territory between innovative comedy and gratuitous offence.

Culture File: Stella Feehily

London-born, Donegal-raised playwright, Stella Feehily on her first ballet libretto, Coppelia, for Ballet Ireland.

Culture File: Hana Czech

Czech ambassador, Hana Mottlova, on how to celebrate properly Czech Independence Day.

Culture File: Boole Pudding

The tastiest celebration of mathlete & accidental Corkman, George Boole's 200th birthday takes the shape of a pud.

Culture File: Richard Herring

Richard Herring spent 2015 reviving and relearning his entire stand up oeuvre shares some of his timeless titters

Culture File Weekly No 41

This weekly we divide our time between Wexford, Dublin and the street, as we glimpse a project that is putting Irish poetry in spaces you'd expect to find offers of inclusive minutes; we visit Wexford Festival Opera in search of design and choreography, and meet the artist who putting robots in museums, galleries, theatres - and yes - opera houses.

Culture File: Imran Fest

A Dublin billboard project is putting poetry in the spaces where you expect to fizzy drinks and inclusive minute

Culture File: Opera Robots

Artist Denis Roche's robots let patients visit galleries, theatres, even opera houses, without leaving their beds

Culture File: Jimmy Mac

3D modelling and digital projection interact with glue and seashells in set designs for Wexford Opera's Koanga

Culture File: Boyzie

Soweto-born choreographer, Boyzie Cekwana on creating dance for Wexford Festival Opera's revival of Delius' Koanga

Culture File: AK Photos

When is a photo not a photo, and other riddles of computational photography with tech soothsayer, Aisling Kelliher

Culture File Weekly No 40

This weekly, we’re chewing on chestnuts, discovering the pulling power of evangelical Christianity at the US box office, hearing about some evolutions of the plain old snap, and meeting the classical pianist whose switch to jazz was such a success that no less than Chick Corea calls him a creative genius.

Culture File: Gwilym

Classical piano prodigy turned jazz star, Gwilym Simcock on jazz, classical and what lies in between.

Culture File: Trickster Bird

The trickster bird, the Crow, in all his forms is celebrated in Imram Irish Festival's Cleasaí Éin show

Culture File: Christian Flix

The unexpected rise of Evangelical cinema at the American omniplex

Culture File: Giorgio Marcels

As autumn settles in, Giorgio Casari's fancy turns to chestnuts but the object is not to conquer, but to cook.

Culture File Weekly No 39

This weekly we hear how the word "macaroni" came to be both an insult and a rallying cry and why a Linotype machine is like a piece of cheese. We meet Claudio Simonetti, the composer who created the music world of director, Dario Argento's horror films; and we interpret the Irish 1935 Public Dance Halls Act, through the medium of contemporary dance

Culture File: Macaroni

Mocking the Georgian youth culture of the "Macaronies" in the 1770s caricatures of Mary and Matthew Darly

Culture File: Dance Hall

The Public Dance Halls Act, 1935 and Patrick Scott's art feed Dancehall, the latest from choreographer Emma Martin

Culture File: Ivan/ Feldman

Pianist, Ivan Ilic voyages deeper into the music of Morton Feldman with a CD and a tour dedicated to the composer

Culture File: Profondorosso

Composer, Claudio Simonetti, on creating the chilling soundworlds of director, Dario Argento's 70s Italo-horrors

Culture File: Linotype

The irresistible tap-tap-buzz of what Thomas Edison described as the 8th Wonder of the World: the Linotype Machine

Culture File: Eimear Noone

Irish video game music conductor and composer, Eimear Noone, on why it's not either/or when it comes to Stravinsky and Metallica.

Culture File Weekly No 38

We have all the makings of a good night out at The Last Hotel, take the tour with the Mullingar man who is bringing Shakespeare's Globe alive, find out why companies such as Google, Eircom and UPC are re-branding; and hear what happens when Schubert lieder get rebooted into the Irish language

Culture File: Rebranding Part 2

Brandspert, Eoghan Nolan, finishes decoding a wave of re-brands by the likes of Google, Eir and Virgin Media (2/2)

Culture File: Rebranding Part 1

What We Talk About When We Talk About Brands: brandspert, Eoghan Nolan, helps decode a recent wave of re-brandings