Cathy Walsh is a choreographer and performer from Cork. She is the movement director for the current run of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Everyman in Cork.

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Pauline McLynn might never escape the associations with Craggy Island, but her role with Corcadorca on Spike will be one of the highlights of Cork Midsummer Festival, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Des O’Driscoll with the latest entertainment news and events

Cork Midsummer Festival runs this weekend and next. Here are some of the early highlights:

Eimear O’Herlihy is from Cork city and she is festival manager with West Cork Literary Festival, a week-long programme of readings, workshops and family events that will take place in Bantry, July 17 -23.

As Corcadorca marks 25 years of great theatre in Cork, Pat Kiernan and Enda Walsh tell Alan O’Riordan about the early days, Disco Pigs and what’s happened since

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment. 

Corcadorca’s new production of an Enda Walsh play is being staged in the building that housed one of Cork’s major financial institutions, writes Colette Sheridan

Magic Moment: At the launch of her debut collection of subtly-crafted short stories, Waiting for the Bullet, at Triskel Christchurch, Madeleine D’Arcy read the desperately sad Clocking Out, her story about a naive young woman, a lonely outsider, who gives birth in a field.

Graepel’s Factory, Kinsale

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GIG WISE: With Electric Picnic out of the way, the next biggie on the Irish music horizon is the Guinness Amplify festival taking place through the five provinces on different weekends in September and October.

Pulses of Tradition is back at Triskel Christchurch for the summer, writes Jo Kerrigan.

Theatre is thriving in Cork: SHOW is a festival of original work and continues at the Triskel Arts Centre until Sunday.

Theatre - The Hanging Gardens, The Abbey, Dublin

THE Big Yum Yum is the unusual title of Patrick McCabe’s new play, which centres on a party and a showband.

Tommy Barker is stone-mad about a pitch-perfect, quirky and quality city retreat

This year’s Cork Midsummer Festival uses a combination of local and international talent to put on a fine series of events on Leeside, writes Colette Sheridan

From film to visual art, from theatre to pop, our critics pick the highlights of the year in arts

TO MANY, Cillian Murphy is the dark horse of Irish cinema, as likely to be seen in modestly budgeted indigenous films as in high-concept Hollywood blockbusters.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

A UNIQUE event bringing together outdoor theatre and performance practitioners from Europe will be held in Waterford this week.