Event guide: The Weir, Kilkenny Arts Festival and other best things to do in Ireland this week
August 2nd-8th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
My weekly mix of arts-related events in this weekend's @IrishTimes.com Ticket magazine.
Go to:
#TheWeir @3olympiatheatre
@PierceTurner @wexfordarts
#WeveOnlyJustBegun @whelanslive
#HowthRootsAndBlues
@MIKPYRO
@KilkennyArts
#ArtandSoul @cullodenestate
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
02.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best new Irish music releases | The Irish Post
‘GRAB it, take it, it’s yours…’ So goes one of the lines in Alternative Ulster, a song released ...
My monthly Irish-only album reviews in The Irish Post - take a bow and a curtsy.
Share widely - support Irish music!
Ciara Lawless
Stiff Little Fingers
Matthew Devereaux
Rob De Boer
Moncrieff
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
12.06.2025 17:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Blister On The Moon
Taste · Taste · Song · 1969
30 years gone from tomorrow - here's one example of how brilliant a pinpoint guitarist @rorygallagher.com was.
It's a genuinely incomparable piece of rock music - Blister On the Moon.
open.spotify.com/track/6fGTwr...
12.06.2025 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Golden Wings
Gerr Walsh · Single · 2025 · 1 songs
New song by @gerrwalsh.bsky.social
Confident, punchy pop/rock with a rigid melody spine from top to bottom.
open.spotify.com/album/38IygK...
23.05.2025 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Things Too Long Left Unsaid
Vinny Peculiar · Album · 2025 · 10 songs
If there's one album (less than 40 minutes!) you really need to listen to this weekend, then it's this one - the new arrival from Vinny Peculiar…
A career highlight, no more, no less...
open.spotify.com/album/3bRGr0...
23.05.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Like I Should Do
Fia Moon · Single · 2025 · 1 songs
New song from Fia Moon - her casually delivered melody lines never fail to hit the mark.
Why aren't her songs played regularly on Irish radio?
open.spotify.com/album/7jM0bN...
09.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From chaos to craft - inside U2’s creative studio alchemy | The Irish Post
TRUST U2’s soothsayer and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. to state the obvious and call out what he view...
What to make of the U2 album that comprises a collection of unconventional songs written for (mostly) imaginary films, and that they decided to release under a pseudonym?
In the year of the 30th anniversary of Original Soundtracks 1, let's take a look, shall we?
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
06.05.2025 15:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HindZeitgeist
The Would Be's · Album · 2025 · 10 songs
If there's one new album that you need to listen to this weekend, this month, this year, then it's this one...
Take it away, The Would Be's!
open.spotify.com/album/5amoWA...
02.05.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whispers
Dark Tropics · Whispers · Song · 2025
Can't fathom why @DarkTropics.bsky.social aren't selling out massive venues - they are easily one of the best Irish bands around…
New single, Whispers, highlights a more robust side to the duo.
Your time and attention to this song - and others - are worth it.
open.spotify.com/track/3CVYOG...
29.04.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
You mean like Brie Larson?
24.04.2025 21:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wafer thin, though?
22.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Paddy Hanna, Lullahush, Cushla, Maria Somerville and Danny Groenland
April 2025 releases include Oylegate, Ithaca, Tech Duinn, Luster and Burning Rome
Good news for Irish musicians - @IrishTimes.com starts a monthly 'Irish Albums Only' review column today (subscription required).
Here's the first, featuring:
Maria Somerville
Danny Groenland
@PaddyHanna.bsky.social
lullahush
Cushla
Support Irish music!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
22.04.2025 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by David Long & Shane O Neill
Wont
Wont (bside to 25) by David Long & Shane O'Neill
Available from Bandcamp, davidlong4.bandcamp.com/album/25
Film footage taken from Earth (1930) movie
Directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by Daniil Demutsky
youtu.be/cdsqG07rQkE?...
19.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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