From ceramics to cushions to candle holders and cattle captured on canvas, Esther N McCarthy has the low-down.

MUSIC NEWS: Reginald D Hunter’s series, Songs of the South, is essential viewing for music fans tomorrow night (BBC Two, 9pm), and this second episode is all the more attractive because it is followed by a new documentary on James Brown. 

Weather forecasters are telling Electric Picnic fans that they will not need their wellies.

Guinness has today announced details of eight more music events taking place in pubs in Cork, Dublin and Belfast on Arthur’s Day.