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.