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Karan Casey has worked with director Sophie Motley to create a show that is part song-poem, part music performance. I Walked Into My Head at kilkennyarts.ie , Alan Corr revisits The Office at 20, producer Hugh Farrell & sound designer, Tyler Kieffer on Of a Mind, produced by Listen & Breathe, a unique audio experience mermaidartscentre.ie

A Thing I Cannot Name is an opera film from Irish National Opera, three very different women are connected only by the intensity of their wildly dissimilar desires, the artist Isabel Nolan’s new exhibition is entitled A delicate bond which is also a gap, solsticeartscentre.ie , Louise Bruton & Simon Maher review new albums incl. Clairo

Eímear Noone is one of the world’s most accomplished composers of scores for videogames, this Friday Eímear will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Eímear Noone’s ‘Electric Arcade’, Lisa Fallon on American comedy series Ted Lasso, Gerald Dawe's new book 'Imagined City: Belfast Soulscapes' the third in his acclaimed Northern Chronicles.

Kelly Anne Byrne marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Amy Winehouse, Amy's mother has narrated a new documentary on BBC Two, John Maguire & Ruth Barton review films, Riders of Justice & World to Come, Bareback horse racing is a tradition central to Native American culture, Kim Bartley’s documentary Pure Grit, galwayfilmfleadh.com/

Here Before is a psychological thriller starring Andrea Riseborough, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, with Roxanna Nic Liam & directed by Connor O'Toole, galwayfilmfleadh.com, Wes Anderson, the American director is known for the distinctive visual aesthetic of his quirky comedies, Rory Cashin on where to begin with his work.

Jenn Gannon on musical duo Sparks! - ahead of Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers, & Annette, for which they wrote the music & the screenplay, Artistic Director, Geoff Gould and Seamus O Rourke on The West Cork Fit Up Festival, fit-uptheatrefestival.com , Chris Wasser on the new musical comedy series Schmigadoon, on Apple TV Plus

In MiddleTown is the tale of a furniture removals man, who one day packs up his own belongings, actor, writer & director Mikel Murfi takes to the road in a truck, gate-theatre.ie, 'The Time Being' is a poetry collection from John FitzGerald, Brian Boyd & Kate Brennan Harding review albums incl. Ra Gerra (MuRli & producer Kobina), Stephen Fretwell

Tara Brady reports from Cannes Film Festival, Paul Whitington & Gemma Creagh review films incl. Summer of Soul, a found footage documentary about a pivotal 1969 New York soul music festival, John Self on Georges Simenon, Betty is a traumatised, hard-drinking 28-year-old, alone in Paris, whose past threatens to engulf her, re-issued by Penguin

Our man in RTÉ Sport, Damien O'Meara looks at artistic representations of the Olympics on film, a blend of private eye, horror & speculative fiction, ‘The Nameless Ones’ is the 20th novel from John Connolly featuring Charlie Parker, All of This Unreal Time, is a short film directed Aoife McArdle & starring Cillian Murphy.

Subterranean Sessions will be on RTÉ 2 Thursday night, Róisín O, presents & performs, Christy Lefteri's 'Songbirds' is about the too-frequent exploitation of migrant workers, War Dance of the Fairy Folk is a live performance by Na Mic Ua gCorra, created by Irish dancer & choreographer, Breandán de Gallaí, Lemoncello play at SoFFT Nights Festival