Eleanor Flegg on the story of a table so beloved when it was shipped across the Atlantic it inspired a ballad, "The Lament On Fletcher’s Shamrock Table On Its Departure for The New York Exhibition"

The Shamrock Table | Culture File

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates a radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Radio Haunting | Culture File

The roots of Darkfield Radio's perfect pandemic artform lie in using smartphones to make theatre in the streets. Darkfield co-directors, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath explain.

Darkfield Radio | Culture File

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates another radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Stendhal and Me | Culture File

Yves B Golden returns with a new radio poem called Karmageddon

Karmageddon | Culture File

LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File is Welcome Home.

Welcome Home | Culture File

Musician, producer and curlew collaborator, Merlyn Driver shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Culture File "Likes": Merlyn Driver

Culture File's sojourn on the freshly-minted Republic of Barbados begins with a walk on the beach with Rihanna's favourite calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby.

The Mighty Gabby | Culture File

For the day that's in it, & Dubliners departed, Lisa O'Neill sings Raglan Road, live on Culture File.

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Culture File Xtra: Lisa O'Neill - "Raglan Road" (Acoustic Live On Culture File, RTE Lyric FM)

How French sociologist, Pierre Bordieu helps us understand culture; plus where the freest jazz comes from, in the second part of our conversation with author, W David Marx. (part 2)

Status and Culture 2 | Culture File

W David Marx on how the internet and omnivorous taste are remaking the function of culture. (Part 3 - Extended interview coming up in The Culture File Weekly, Sat 1st.)

Status and Culture 3 | Culture File

W David Marx on how humans' constant struggle for status drives innovation, shaping our art and culture in the most surprising ways.

Status and Culture Special | Culture File Weekly

Director and creator of DTF show, Lost Lear, Dan Colley on a few of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Culture File "Likes": Dan Colley

If you think the football is alway on, things are about to get a whole lot worse when the World Cup kicks off Qatar this weekend, and the formerly beautiful game will explode from every screen, every earbud. 

But how can this plaything of oligarch, and petrostates, this swamp of exploitation and discrimination, how can that be fir for our eyes and ears, never mind our love?

Orit Gat, writer and filmmaker, Juliet Jacques  and artist and author, Adrian Duncan join Luke Clancy for a kickabout.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 19 November, 6.30pm

The Culture File Debate - Sat. 19 November, 6.30pm

How typographer, Thomas Phinney, earned himself the title the Font Detective.

Originally broadcast Culture File, RTÉ lyric fm, 300913

Thomas Phinney: Font Detective.

Football, football, football. How can this plaything of oligarch, and petrostates, this swamp of exploitation and discrimination, how can that be fit for our eyes and ears, never mind our love or inspiration?

Critic and writer, Orit Gat, writer and filmmaker, Juliet Jacques and artist and author, Adrian Duncan join Luke Clancy for a kickabout.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 19 November, 6.30pm

The Culture File Debate - Sat. 19 November, 6.30pm (2nd promo)

Gerry O'Boyle of Tower Records and Garry O'Neill, author of Where Were You? on the record shops of auld Dublin.

Culture File: Record Shops of Dublin

On the program this week, the world's oldest voices recorded among the centenarians of the Talysh Mountains, the synthesised voice of her brother, David, in Holly Marie Parnell's documentary Cabbage, falling asleep to Joe Pera's voice in the comedian's new sleep podcast, and Orit Gat on art that smells.

Photo: Marilena Umuhoza Delli

The Culture File Weekly 010423: Why Voices Matter

What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard in an Irish crime series, ever be just a guard?

Culture FIle - Race and the Irish Screen

Paddy Woodworth, the voice of Culture File's The Naturalist's Bookshelf, causes a chain reaction as he invites naturalists Richard Nairn, Jane Clarke and Tina Claffey to select their favourite volumes of nature writing. Recorded live at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin as part of Dublin Book Fair 2022.

The Culture File Debate: Live at the National Botanic Gardens, in Glasnevin

The writer and actor tag team on entering the cloud of unknowing for their latest colab, Ballyturk, a co-production between Galway International Arts Festival and Landmark Productions which opens at the Festival this summer.

Culture File: Enda Walsh and Cillian Murphy's Ballyturk

Ireland and Ecocriticism is a conference looking at the growth area not just of eco-criticism, but of Irish ecocriticism. (Part 1 of 3)

Culture File: Ireland and Ecocriticism

Culture File presents Lisa Fingleton's seasonal tale of Walter, a man whose pursuit of everything might just have left him  - and the rest of the world - with nothing. 

Written and performed by Lisa Fingleton.

Walter The Warmonger by Lisa Fingleton

This week printmaking, turntablism and the not-so-secret ingredient of some of the worlds most "effective" perfumes, as we visit the studio of artist, Daniel Lipstein, put the needle 'pon the record with DJ Yoda and take our latest sniff of the scents of the 20th century with perfume historian, Odette Toilet.

Culture File Weekly No. 14

Berlin-based Lambert, on the best place to obtain Sardinian folk masks and other essentials of his performances.

Culture File: Pianist-composer, Lambert's search for the right mask

What happens when the apparently disparate worlds of archaeology and video games converge?

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 1)

If any architectural feature could be said to be "having a moment," then walls are indeed having a big one

Culture File: Tadhg O'Sullivan's Walls

A musical image of a Middle East primed to erupt, in the music of a Nazareth-born, Dublin-based jazz singer

Culture File: Ruba Shamshoum's volcano

Dublin International Piano Festival's Archie Chen leads a fingertip tour of best practice Chopin

Culture File: Mastering Chopin with Dr Chen

Milk-based alcohol has ancient roots and remains very common - so why are we coy about it, wonders Justin Green

Culture File: The old new world of whey alcohol

Meadhbh O'Connor's horticultural sculptures, Biospheres, offer an alternative language of contemporary art.

Culture File: Meadhbh O'Connor's Earth

...according to @maxhaiven, our Tuesday 27th and 28th March guest on Culture File in conversation w/ @Rachelodwyer, 6.05pm @Lyriclorcan @RTÉlyricfm (and on podcloud the day after!)

Guess who is the biggest financial contributor to art in the contemporary world...?

Max Haiven on the rise of money as a subject in art, and art as a form of money, an asset class for the super-rich.

Culture File: The Art and Money Tango (Part 1)

Contemporary musicians are bringing to life medieval hymn books with help from TCD musicologist, Ann Buckley.

Extracts featured with thanks to Dr Ann Buckley
Music arranged by Ann Buckley. 
Copyright: Ann Buckley and the Amra Project

"Vertens in cervisiam" - antiphon from the Office of St Brigit: Sung by Lucy Champion and Giovanna Feeley

‘Magni patris/Mente munda’, Responsory and Prosa, from the Office of St Patrick: Sung by Francis Flood, David Noonan, David O’Shea and Schola Hyberniae (female voices).

Ann Buckley's book, Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context is available here:

www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct…S-9782503534701-1

Contact: BUCKLEAI@tcd.ie

Culture File: The Saints and The Scholar

With thank to Ann Buckley
Music arranged by Ann Buckley. 
Copyright ‘Ann Buckley and the Amra Project’. 

‘Magni patris/Mente munda’, Responsory and Prosa, from the Office of St Patrick: Sung by Francis Flood, David Noonan, David O’Shea and Schola Hyberniae (female voices).

Ann Buckley's book, Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context is available here:

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503534701-1

Magni patris/Mente munda

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. For the event, the Rijksmuseum has on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings - a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer, Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File.

The Culture File Weekly 150319: All of the Rembrandts. Srsly.

A Dublin collective working under the name, UEFA, is exploring the social possibilities of Association Football

Culture File: The Art of Football

A wave of apps offers to rewild conversation, explains Prof Aisling Kelliher, by introducing a touch of randomness back into online communication.

Spontaneity Rediscovered | Culture File

This month's Zoom call takes all the angles on the sense of smell, with an all-star noses panel featuring: writer, @Harold_McGee; perfumer, @Meabh_Mc_Curtin; neuroscientist, @smellosopher; zoologist, @matthewcobb; and experimental perfumer, @AleesaCohene.

Popular tracks by Soundsdoable / Culture File