Culture File

Jennifer Alford was among a group of Irish markers invited to create in craft a personal response to an object in the National Museum.

Soprano, Elizabeth Hilliard lets her voice "out of the box" in a new work by Gráinne Mulvey celebrating "Great Women".

To the fans, she's singer/guitarist with Irish rockers, Bitch Falcon; or perhaps electronic artist and remixer, Cool Girl. But that's only half the story of Lizzie Fitzpatrick

Artist and composer, Jennifer Walshe wonders how a music recommendation AI can ever hope to best RL serendipity.

Aisling Kelliher on the problem with solutions in the contemporary design process, a page of radio poetry from Los Angeles by poet-DJ, Yves B Golden; and Jonny Ensor of Nubiyan Twist on his solo project, Matters Unknown. Which is not a jazz band.

Aisling Kelliher on the problem with solutions in the contemporary design process, a page of radio poetry from Los Angeles by poet-DJ, Yves B Golden; and Jonny Ensor of Nubiyan Twist on his solo project, Matters Unknown. Which is not a jazz band.

NYC-based songwriter and trombonist, Smoota counts some of the returning pleasure of his home town.

Prof Aisling Kelliher on the limitations of Silicon Valley's reflex of treating the world as a series of problem to be solved

Jonny Enser, trumpeter and co-founder of UK collective, Nubiyan Twist on the progressive mixes of his solo project, Matters Unknown.

Sculptor and conservationist, Eoghan Daltun, who is coaxing back to life an Irish rainforest; Jennifer Walshe visits an old friend at the Museum of Natural History in London, and Smoota on capturing in song the libidinal urges stoked by the pandemic

Afro-jazz trumpeter and Nubiyan Twist member, Jonny Enser on some of his favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates a radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Sculptor and conservationist, Eoghan Daltun, who is coaxing back to life an Irish rainforest; Jennifer Walshe visits an old friend at the Museum of Natural History in London, and Smoota on capturing in song the libidinal urges stoked by the pandemic

Afro-jazz trumpeter and Nubiyan Twist member, Jonny Enser on some of his favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Sculptor and conservationist, Eoghan Daltun, who is coaxing back to life an Irish rainforest; Jennifer Walshe visits an old friend at the Museum of Natural History in London, and Smoota on capturing in song the libidinal urges stoked by the pandemic

New York-based musician, Smoota's "Pandemic Threesome" of releases explores sexuality in the post-COVID world.

West Cork artist-conservationist, Eoghan Daltun has turned his skills to tending back to life what he calls an Irish rainforest in West Cork.

As London moves tentatively post-pandemic, composer and artist Jennifer Walshe is reunited with her very oldest friend.

The art collective of women 70-plus that lockdown created, the history of the 5-string fiddle with 10 String Symphony, 121 stories from the struggle for equality in Trad, and the Galway-born winner of this year's World Fantasy Premier League title.

A few of choreographer, Philip Connaughton's favourite things in listening, watching, reading, tasting and smelling.

Harpist and sound artist Una Monaghan's "121 Stories" project throws light on the impact of gender on participation in trad.

As they start their virtual Irish tour, "avant 'grass" duo, 10 String Symphony, talk five-stringed fiddles, working with members of Lau, and how to make a virtual touring authentic.

Na Cailleacha is the name of a collective of older women artists in Ireland who podded together during lockdown and began to make art collaboratively. (image: designed for Na Cailleacha by Anouk Rudin)

Galwayman, Michael Coone won out over more than 8million other managers of the Fantasy Premier League to become 2021 World Champion.

Multi-instrumentalist and sax player with Nubiyan Twist, Denis Scully shares some of the watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling he's been enjoying