Culture File: Women and Aging

The Strange Adventures of Ageing and other dispatches from University of Limerick's Woman and Ageing conference.

Culture File: Maurice Quillinan on Maths & Music

The latest incarnation of artist, Maurice Quillinan's maths, music and painting collaboration, Music on the Water, reaches Limerick.

Culture File: Rehabilitating Peig Sayers

Artist, Ken Bolger and poet, Dairena Ni Chinnéide enlist slate to salvage Peig Sayers from her status as leaving Cert pariah.

Culture File Weekly No. 19

This Weekly, we wander the kitchens and lecture sheds of Ballymaloe Literary Festival, where some of the world's greatest food pros have been munching and wandering among the mortals. We break bread with Chez Panisse founder, Alice Waters, glug with Beer oracle, Garrett Oliver; and hear about what's on breakfast tables from East Cork to Burgundy.

Culture File: Empathising Brands

Brand wrangler, Eoghan Nolan, on what happens to brands in the era when our devices want to know how we feel right this minute.

Culture File Weekly No. 19

This Weekly, we wander the kitchens and lecture sheds of Ballymaloe Literary Festival, where some of the world's greatest food pros have been munching and wandering among the mortals. We break bread with Chez Panisse founder, Alice Waters, glug with Beer oracle, Garrett Oliver; and hear about what's on breakfast tables from East Cork to Burgundy.

Culture File: The Scent of the '90s with Odette Toilette

Odette Toilette leads us into the '90s, when perfume was all about diffusion - of global brands, rather than precious molecules.

Culture File - Breakfasts in Burgundy

Breakfasts in Burgundy and East Cork, in the final report from this year's Ballymaloe Literary Festival.

Culture File - Garrett Oliver on Beer

Some people call him the “Robert Parker of beer” - but don’t hold that against brewmaster and US craft beer guru, Garrett Oliver.

Culture File Weekly No. 18

This weekly, we visit "urban opera" set in St Teresas Garden in Dublin and a "terror noise opera" performed in a shed in Leitrim, and enjoy Pigtown Scratchings, which isn't an opera at all, but an experimental cabaret. Plus, we hear why the sounds of hammering coffin nails is filling the streets of Cobh. Again.

Culture File: Food Visionary, Alice Waters

Alice Waters, founder of world's-greatest-restaurant contender, Chez Panisse, on her "delicious revolution".

Culture File: Writing for Children

Killer first lines, and other strategies of the successful children's book writer, with literary agent, Julia Churchill.

Culture File: Odette Toilette on Rare Blockbuster Scents

Were you a Body Shop White Musk lurker? Or sweating/whispering in a cloud of Obsession. Odette Toilette on some retro blockbuster scents.

Culture File: Recalling the Lusitania

Coffin carpentry and headstone carving spill out of Sirius Arts Centre, for an exhibition which recalls some of those aboard The Lusitania's final voyage.

Culture File: Pigtown Scratchings

Cries, whispers and a touch of satanism at the latest edition of Limerick's works-in-progress, ideas-in-flux cabaret night, Pigtown Scratchings.

Cullture File - St Teresa's Gardens Opera

Outlandishtheatre Platform’s Maud Hendricks on the company’s St. Teresa’s Gardens, Dublin-set “urban mini opera” EX-hib-IT-US 2015.

Culture File: My Weekend As A Performance Artist

Gareth stack recalls "My Weekend As A Performance Artist" at Leitrim's boutique Goth festival, Species.

Culture File Weekly No. 17

This week we remember Wexford's own El Zorro, find the crossovers between nature documentaries and dance films and recall, with the help of restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, the Po Valley when the Neo-Realist rice was handpicked.

Culture File: Odette Toilette & the Scent of Poison

Odette Toilette leads us deeper in the scents of the 1980s, where dwell the possibly fecal joys of Dior’s zeitgiesty, Poison.

Culture File: Dance Artist, Mary Wycherley

Mary Wycherley on the history of bodies on screens, the power of the bell and her film collaboration with choreographer, Joan Davis.

Culture File - Foraging in Italy with Giorgio Casari

Restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, on the pure joys of Italian spring cooking, and the link between foraged greens and budgie smugglers

Culture File - William Lamport aka El Zorro

The tale of Wexford's swashbuckling Jesuit hero, William Lamport, who some prefer to call...El Zorro.

Culture File Weekly No 16

Wool, tape and an electric guitar played with a knife sharpener all have their role this time, as we get some stitch tips at Cork's legendary knitting-as-art project, The Knitting Map, meet the man behind a cassette only music label and enlist a charming company of West End Men to help decide what exactly "legit" currently means.

Culture File - Cork's Knitting Map at the Glucksman Gallery

Jools Gilson organised knitters from all over Cork to sit down over the course of a year to produce The Knitting Map.

Culture File - The West End Men

What makes "legit" legit?...and other riddles of the contemporary musical, with the stars of The West End Men.

Culture File - The Scents of the 80s

Odette Toilette's journey through the scents of the 20th century makes a stop at the power-suited, iron-pumping, calorie counting 1980s.