Culture File

For The Shabbiness of Beauty, artist Moyra Davey created a new body of work in response to the innovative, questing images of photographer Peter Hujar.

Jennifer Walshe spots a quiet invasion at the bookshop, featuring: Peter Brown's The Wild Robot; Tom Gauld's The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess; and David Lucas' The Robot and The Bluebird.

Luke Clancy and a panel featuring activist choreographer, Aoibhinn O’Dea, academic and social worker, Benjamin Shepard, scholar, Matthew Cole and creative producer, Louise Blackwell try to discover a new role for play (and almost by chance, work) in our lives.

Cathering Young Dance's latest, Floating on A Dead Sea, explores the circumstances of the Palestinian people through dance and music; INO's conductor in residence, Elaine Kelly om The Lighthouse, Paddy Woodowrh of Edward Abbey, and a reminder of the rivalry that shaped the classical guitar: Segovia v Williams.

Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professorship in Irish Writing at TCD, shares some of his recent pleasures in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Guitarist, Michael O'Toole on how Andrés Segovia and John Williams helped create the instrument we know today.

Luke Clancy and a panel featuring activist choreographer, Aoibhinn O’Dea, academic and social worker, Benjamin Shepard, scholar, Matthew Cole and creative producer, Louise Blackwell try to discover a new role for play (and almost by chance, work) in our lives.

Guitarist, Michael O'Toole on how Andrés Segovia and John Williams helped create the instrument we know today.

Cathering Young Dance's latest, Floating on A Dead Sea, explores the circumstances of the Palestinian people through dance and music; INO's conductor in residence, Elaine Kelly om The Lighthouse, Paddy Woodowrh of Edward Abbey, and a reminder of the rivalry that shaped the classical guitar: Segovia v Williams.

Luke Clancy and a panel featuring activist choreographer, Aoibhinn O’Dea, academic and social worker, Benjamin Shepard, scholar, Matthew Cole and creative producer, Louise Blackwell try to discover a new role for play (and almost by chance, work) in our lives.

Guitarist, Michael O'Toole on how Andrés Segovia and John Williams helped create the instrument we know today.

Elaine Kelly's new role as INO's first conductor in residence sees her sailing The Lighthouse, Peter Maxwell Davies' story of odd going on among the 'keepers.

Catherine Young Dance's long postponed, Irish-Palestinian dance collab, Floating on a Dead Sea opens in Longford.

Paddy Woodworth picks Edward Abbey's memoir, Desert Solitaire as the latest volume for his ideal shelf of nature writing.

Some of the best things in listening, reading, watching, tasting and smelling, according to composer, Eugene Birman.

How not to do science, according to Stuart Ritchie; changing ideas of representation at the recent Narrating The Nation museums conference, and Jennifer Walshe takes on the Zuckeraverse.

At the Narrating The Nation conference, Oein DeBhairduin and Rosa Meehan talked about the future of Traveller representation in Irish museums.

Stuart Ritchie on the necessary work of the website, Retraction Watch, and the problem with "instinct" in scientific experiments. (Part 2)

Stuart Ritchie on "the replication crisis" and other malfunctions in how we are doing science.

Composer and artist Jennifer Walshe sees at least as much peril and promise in Meta's plans for the Metaverse.

The Monaghan Asylum Soviet becomes an opera from Michael Gallen and the Abbey Theatre, Chris Morash decodes the messages of the first transatlantic cable, composer Eugene Birman on his avant choir work, Lamentations, and the waking the museum at a conference in Dublin.

Pianist Xenia Pestova Bennet shares some of her favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

Prof Clémentine Deliss has a vision for the future of museums she calls "The Metabolic Museum" she told NCAD/NMI's recent Narrating The Nation conference in Dublin.

Composer Eugene Birman's contemporary choral work, Lamentations explores the boundlessness of the human voice.

TCD's Chris Morash explores the meanings of the first transatlantic cable running between Valentia island and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland,