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

Culture File Weekly No 33

Culture File Weekly delves into the music of Rhiannon Giddens, the Carolina-born, Limerick-based singer, champion of the banjo and tireless explorer of the forgotten histories of black music in America.

Culture File Weekly No 32

Culture File's journey through the scents of a century fetches up in the present scent world of gourmand perfumes, celebrity "juice" and the middle-eastern driven vogue for perfumes based on the scent of oud.

Culture File Weekly No 31

Culture File's journey through the scents of a century fetches up in the present scent world of gourmand perfumes, celebrity "juice" and the middle-eastern driven vogue for perfumes based on the scent of oud.

Culture File Weekly No. 30

Odette Toilette leads us through the scents that made the 20th century, finding an alternative history in perfumes and the societies that produced them. We begin this week, as the dust of WWI settles and the air is filled once more with the sweet scent of violets...

Culture File: Giorgio Casari

Restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, on Ferragosto and the flavours and sounds of full summer in Italy

Culture File Weekly No. 29

Luke Clancy talks to Tess Gallagher, widow of Raymond Carver about the decade she spent with the writer, during which he wrote some of the most popular love poems of the Twentieth century, for and to Tess Gallagher. We hear about the origins of poems such as Late Fragment, and enjoy some of the music they inspired in Irish composer, Linda Buckley

Culture File: Carsten Holler

A ride on a Carsten Holler slide is to the 21st century what seeing a Piero della Francesca fresco was to the 20th

Culture File: The History of The Humble Donkey

Jill Bough on the history, art and meanings of the always humble donkey.

Culture File Weekly No. 28

This Weekly comes from Galway International Arts Festival, where we make a mindful progress through the city's Woodquay area with choreographer, Bernadette Divilly, we encounter the cacophony of a rehearsal by New Zealand's Live Live Cinema; meet Italian ?film composer, Teho Teardo ? and get tactile with the creations of Patricia Piccinini.

Culture File: Eimear Murphy (Propmaker)

Propmaker for The Abbey's By The Bog of Cats, Eimear Murphy, on the alchemy of feathers ?and? fake blood.

Culture File: Discover Ireland Horse Show

At the RDS, anticipation is building along with an unfeasible high wall for the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show

Culture File: Teardo's Music for Enda Walsh

Teardo wrote the music for Enda Walsh's Ballyturk, as well as music for Frank McGuinness' The Matchbox, the later of which premiered at the festival.

Culture File: Galway's Sky Whale

Patricia Piccinini's hot air balloon, Sky Whale, uses fairground fun to speculate on the future of life on earth

Culture File: Live Live Cinema

Roger Corman's cult, The Little Shop of Horrors gets a makeover from Live Live Cinema's cast of live foley artists

Culture File Mapping Woodquay

Importing "community mapping" techniques from the First Peoples in Canada to create new maps of Woodquay, Galway.

Culture File: Walking Woodquay

Walking Woodquay Wisdom is project to remap Woodquay in Galway, using walking, storytelling - and even mapmaking.

Culture File Weekly No. 27

This weekly, we're all about legacies, from making memorials of Irish engineering history on the Dublin quays, to curating the tweets and Spotify lists of the departed, rebooting "early Music" into Irish "New Music" and taking stock of the inhumanly large cache of Leipzig choral music produced by Kapellmeister of Thomaskirche, JS Bach.

Culture File: A Day in the Life of JS Bach

A day in the life of the Kapelmaster of Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the frighteningly industrious Herr Bach.

Culture File: Dublin's Diving Bell

Victorian engineering genius, Bindon Blood Stoney's innovative diving bell finds new life in Dublin.

Culture File Weekly No. 26

This weekly, a date by the video wall with artist, James Coupe, who is using collaborators he's never even spoken to -- to create his work; we go on manoeuvres with the guerilla filmakers of KinoD; and downshift amongst the bubbling brooks and brimming growlers of stout in West Kerry Brewery.

Culture File: What's your digital legacy?

What's your digital legacy and who'll curate it when you're gone? Aisling Kelliher on digital life after death.

Culture File: Kevin O' Connell Early Music

Rebooting Byrd, Dowland, Couperin and other early music giants in composer, Kevin O’Connell's latest, Early Music.

Culture File: Virtual Reality

The Apollo 11 Experience is a kind of fairground ride for the eyes, seating you alongside Neil Armstrong & chums.

Culture File: Photographing Erris Head with Amelia Stein

An airlift, via the lens of photographer Amelia Stein, to the rugged, rocky North Mayo coastline of the Erris Peninsula.

Culture File: Post Internet Art

What is post-internet art? And why? Media theorist, Florian Cramer on an art world obsession

Culture File: Mechanical Turk

Artist, James Coupe's "General Intellect" uses Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk system to hire an army of collabrotors

Culture File: Beoir Chorca Dhuibhne

A visit to the West Kerry brewery cum twittering homestead with a spring, with mountains to the rear and the sea to the front, where they make a beer which one American critic described as about as close to Guinness as Guinness is to Budweiser.