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Have you ever spent time in the wetlands? When I was growing up, I walked around the bogs surrounding my grandmother’s house from morning until night, practicing sword fighting with tree branches and jumping from stone to stone to…

After a two year wait, Aoife Nessa Frances unleashes her sophomore album Protector. This follow up to 2020’s Land of No Junction has already received acclaim for lead single 'Way to Say Goodbye' and the rest of the album follows a…

"My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” - Ronald Reagan It always happens, art reflects anxiety. At this time of upheaval,…

Mayo native Tracy Gallagher has been bouncing around the Irish music scene for a few years now. Touring the country in her van—affectionately named 'Mags'—Tracy cultivated the sounds and the songs that comprise her first studio EP. Ahead of…

Sussex-born musician RISE—aka Jo Beth Young—is standing on the precipice of greatness and adoration. A nurtured talent echoes within every inch of her latest album Strangers. This, the follow-up to acclaimed 2018 record An Abandoned Orchid…

Very few albums in modern music are worthy of the title "masterpiece". Fewer yet earn cult status almost right away upon release. Underground artists, however, do sometimes come to the surface, leaving audiences with a glimpse into the…

Another way to enjoy a song that you love, and perhaps discover an artist you never listened to, is through a cover. Ever since the classic Joe Cocker release ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’, re-imagining a song has become a talent all…

And then there were two… Plus two more! With Dave and Craig mourning a very-much-alive Colm and missing a very-much-in-Sri-Lanka Daithí, the esteemed and ever-entertaining Andrea Cleary and Fionnuala Jones endeavour to make NO ENCORE great…

"Kublai Kahn does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions..." He'd be better off reading the Lit Review... News Welcome aboard The Irish Writer's Centre Until…

Sinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster, writer, editor of three short story anthologies, host of The Book Show on Radio One, half of The Anti-Room, and all round enviable sound person. She very kindly joined Alan and Ellen to talk about Top of the…