In Japan’s leafy hamlet of Karuizawa, otherworldly architecture is the expression of the uninhibited self, says Hanya Yanagihara

Opening with the arrival of a flustered White Rabbit and ending with the murder of a Red Queen, Gerald Barry’s pick-and-mix of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books was a hysterical hour of operatic delirium.

Ann Skelly knew from a young age that formal education wasn’t for her. 

Ciara McDonnell has the lowdown on this season’s top movies – and the destinations they showcase.

Kevin Barry has accepted he will never write the great American Jewish novel but he still spends nights fretting about what John Lennon’s widow Yoko On might think of Beatlebone. He explains all to Caroline O’Doherty.

With Annie Leibovitz shooting the 2016 Pirelli calendar, it continues a change of recent times, writes Ellie O’Byrne

John Lennon has been gone for almost 35 years, but his message still resonates and his music as good today as ever before.

LIKE butter on hot toast or cream with just-baked apple tart, some partnerships work perfectly together. 

BRENDAN MCCAHEY is from Co Monaghan, and won The Voice of Ireland last year. His latest single, ‘Safe and Well’, is out now, and his new album, To Where I Begin, is also on release.

John Lennon’s first wife Cynthia has died at her home in Spain at the aged of 75.

A mural by street artist Banksy has been vandalised just two weeks after it appeared on a wall in a seaside town.

SOUTH KOREA: For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking one traditional South Korean delicacy: dog meat. But the 58-year-old’s experience with a food eaten for centuries is about to become history.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been invited to perform at 'Alien Woodstock' in a bid to make extra-terrestrials reveal themselves to the planet.

Paul McCartney has taken a huge step into the world of digital music by re-releasing five of his classic records in App format.

Ron Howard is making an official documentary about The Beatles.

Let It Be, an international touring show that celebrates the music of the Beatles, is very much an occasion of nostalgia for the Swinging Sixties.

Café Serendipity,

The Beatles have been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles.

Big in Japan — but for one night only: It wasn’t long before the Taoiseach became yesterday’s news in Tokyo as Joe Biden rolled into town.

AFTER a recent gig in Japan Harry Styles of boy band One Direction is reported to have said that the band “could be as big as The Beatles”.

“We’ve had a really enjoyable journey over the last 18 months,” says Dan Colley, the company’s resident director. “But we’ve got to keep the fire under us.”

WITH new rumours emerging of what’s to come in the budget I have been thinking of what the possible reaction could be.

As if it wasn’t glorious enough, the Kerry countryside has just been adorned with one of the most stunning women in the world.

Tourism Ireland has described American Vogue’s decision to shoot part of its iconic September issue in Kerry as “invaluable publicity”.

The spirit of John Lennon was alive and well on Cork City’s northside yesterday when a mobile sound studio was laid on for some talented local musicians.

THE Artist’s Eye, at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork, is a photographic exhibition that features artists in front of the camera.

Steven Tyler has called off his year-long engagement to model Erin Brady.

Taylor Swift has been branded the Yoko Ono of One Direction.

Steven Tyler has reportedly split from his fiancee.

Paul McCartney has insisted Yoko Ono was not responsible for the end of The Beatles.

Lady Gaga wants to "cry" because there are so many songs she has recorded but cannot release.

Lady Gaga is donating her peace award to charity.

Yoko Ono awarded the Russian punk band Pussy Riot this year’s LennonOno grant for peace.

Rufus Wainwright is to wed his long-term partner Jorn Weisbrodt on Thursday.

Mark David Chapman, who shot dead former Beatle John Lennon 32 years ago, will have his seventh parole hearing this week, New York state’s department of corrections has said.

John Lennon's former home has gone up for sale for £15m (€19m).

The global campaign to free Pussy Riot is gaining speed: Supporters of the punk provocateur band mobilise this week in at least a dozen cities worldwide to hold simultaneous demonstrations an hour before a Russian court rules on whether its members will be sent to prison.

Yoko Ono's presence in the run up to the break up of The Beatles has recently been dubbed "annoying".

Yoko Ono made a surprise visit to Dublin's Glasnevin cemetery today.

For four days next week, the work of a bevy of young artists will be promoted at the Elysian, writes Colette Sheridan

For Paul McCartney, that birthday came in 2006 and, ironically, not long after his split from second wife Heather Mills.