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The Arts Council has written off €5.3m on ‘substandard work’ and an IT system that was ‘not fit for purpose’ while artists try to make ends meet. This has to be the beginning of real change, writes Toner Quinn.
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The Wood Burning Savages just released their second album ‘Hand to Mouth’, a fiery protest record with elements of industrial rock and electronics. Lead singer Paul Connolly...
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The National Symphony Orchestra and tenor Gavan Ring gave the Irish premiere of Stephen McNeff's 'The Celestial Stranger' on 31 January. Adrian Smith reviews.
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The Royal Irish Academy of Music presented Haydn's opera 'La vera costanza' at the Samuel Beckett Theatre on 14–18 January. Brendan Finan reviews.
Nonesuch Records has just released a recording of Donnacha Dennehy’s major work 'Land of Winter', a 12-movement piece exploring Ireland's seasons. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.
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The Arts Council has written off €5.3m on ‘substandard work’ and an IT system that was ‘not fit for purpose’ while artists try to make ends meet. This has to be the beginning of real change, writes Toner Quinn.
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The 2025 New Music Dublin festival takes place from 2 to 6 April and features Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, John Butcher’s 'Dublin Fixations', a new Irene Buckley opera, an Ed Bennett piano concerto and more. The Journal of Music speaks to Artistic Director John Harris...
Cork University Press has published a major volume on the late musician, composer and educator Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, edited by Helen Phelan, Marie McCarthy and Nicholas Carolan. Adrian Scahill reviews.
The Minister for Arts has lost her seat in the General Election, but she leaves a formidable legacy, writes Toner Quinn.
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American composer and musician Dan Trueman reflects on the Irish music scene, and Dave Holden of I Draw Slow considers Trueman's album CrissCross, a recent collaboration with...
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In 2014, without explanation, the TG4 Gradam Ceoil award for traditional music composition was dropped. Given the current thriving tune compositon scene, Dave Flynn asks why.
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