interview
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There are people who write about inequality from a distance, and then there are people like Dr Katriona O’Sullivan who have lived inside it, survived it, and refused to sanitise what it actually does to a human being. Over the past number of years, O’Sullivan has become one of Ireland’s most important public voices on…
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Words by Linda Coogan Byrne Over the past few years, Aoife Dunne has become one of the most exciting and emotionally intelligent new voices to emerge from Irish comedy. Blending stand-up, theatrical storytelling and painfully accurate observations on modern Irish life, Dunne has built a fiercely loyal audience through her ability to make people howl…
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There’s a rare kind of artist who doesn’t simply write songs but builds emotional landscapes people quietly carry with them long after the music stops. Irish singer-songwriter Molly O’Mahony belongs firmly in that category. With her new album, O’Mahony delivers a body of work shaped by love, grief, uncertainty, nature, and the emotional static of…
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Dótts O’Connor sits in that space Irish music does best when it’s honest about itself. There’s no overproduction of identity, no chasing of trend cycles, just a steady pull toward storytelling that feels lived in rather than constructed. His work leans into narrative, not as a stylistic choice but as a necessity, shaped by place,…
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We reviewed Sean Griffin’s single “Be My Girl” a few months back, a track that hinted at something more stripped and more personal sitting just beneath the surface. Now, with his debut solo album People Are Mad out in the world, that shift comes fully into focus. After decades fronting The Ruffians and building a…
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At a certain point in life, time stops feeling abstract. It becomes physical. It lives in the body, in memory, in the quiet realisation that the person you once were is not the person you are becoming. For Ndidi O, that realisation sits at the centre of her new album It’s About Time, released March…
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