Joan Sutherland in 1975: Opera gave her a glamour and status she had never imagined having Her Mad Scene had an escapist quality that I don’t remember anyone else equalling for me - the way she chased ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

Hail, Mary, full of Grace”, the first words uttered by Gabriel to Mary in Luke's account of the Annunciation, are not heard ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

Fancy a trip to the seaside, if the fine weather holds? Then make Margate your destination. On my visit the sea was blue and ...

Han Oh attracted a different crowd, younger, hipper and happy to clap solos while the music continued – I could feel the Hall itself wince. We were treated to a virtuoso performance from Han Oh, whose ...