On Monday, the National Transport Authority published a tender looking for someone to help it plan and oversee the roll-out of red-light and speed cameras.
In “The New Music”, a pianist’s life changes when he is diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s and moves into a shared Dublin house with three punk rockers.
Narcissus Marsh amassed a collection of 150 books in Hebrew and Yiddish, and over the centuries the library added about 100 more Jewish books to his original collection.
Delaney plays traditional music and can sing a bit of sean-nós if he wants to. But he is also a house-music DJ and wants to break Irish-language songs out of their usual genres.
“I found a lot of my songs through songs of Irish chivalry and old books and I had to come up with airs that hadn’t been sung for centuries,” says Sean Fitzgerald.
Every time Kevin Gaines has worked with or around other artists, he’s picked things up – a mallet, a forgotten skill, or just the energy and creativity of a place, he says.
“If ever a book was destined to have Corkonians rubbing their hands together in glee while Dubliners roll their eyes, this is it,” writes our reviewer.
In this book, journalist Caelainn Hogan “sheds light on the darkest corners of our recent history in Ireland, but also holds up a mirror to today”, our reviewer writes.
“I never used to play Arabic stuff out, and then I slowly started to introduce random songs,” says Jamal Sul. “I started to realise that people actually liked it and I thought, ‘That’s weird.’”
