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Culture does not operate in silos. Music, comedy, literature, film, television and policy move together, influencing each other in visible and invisible ways. We analyse the art, but we also scrutinise the mechanisms that sustain it, from funding bodies and broadcasters to legislation and industry gatekeepers. Our coverage connects creative expression to the structures that enable it, restrict it or reshape it over time.

  • Eleanor McEvoy Returns to “South Anne Street” With a New Video About Memory, Time and the Dublin We Carry With Us

    Eleanor McEvoy Returns to “South Anne Street” With a New Video About Memory, Time and the Dublin We Carry With Us

  • Coming Next Week: Anne Gildea and Aoife Dunne on Comedy, Grief and Menopause

    Coming Next Week: Anne Gildea and Aoife Dunne on Comedy, Grief and Menopause

  • Winnie Ama Finds Unity in Every Shade of Life on DEKA

    Winnie Ama Finds Unity in Every Shade of Life on DEKA

  • Nia Archives Refuses to Stay in Her Lane on the Brilliant Emotional Junglist

    Nia Archives Refuses to Stay in Her Lane on the Brilliant Emotional Junglist

  • In Conversation With Paul Archer: What Belfast Really Means to the Multifaceted Artist

    In Conversation With Paul Archer: What Belfast Really Means to the Multifaceted Artist

  • Tracks of The Week

    Tracks of The Week

  • Songs of the Week

    Songs of the Week

  • Irish Radio Is Changing & The Data Finally Shows It

    Irish Radio Is Changing & The Data Finally Shows It

  • OPERA. DRILL. DEFIANCE.

    OPERA. DRILL. DEFIANCE.