This weekend’s Féile na Laoch sees a reprise of Ceoltóirí Chualann, featuring Seán Ó Sé. @catherinegalway.bsky.social addresses a celebration of Fuinneamh na mBan, or female energy, where Cór Ban Chúil Aodha perform Peadar Ó Riada's Laoi na Laoithe. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Irish Examiner children's book reviews: Magical urchins, a fearful fur ball, and a pubescent trainee banshee: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @sineadohart.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Tacking up and mucking out, hoof picking and horsey snobbery in new children's books: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... As the Kanturk native celebrates his 80th birthday, ranked among his achievements is the title of the Man who put the Planxty into the Sliabh Luachra tradition.

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @emmalarkinbooks.bsky.social threads family intrigue through the sporting action in 'Féile', capturing the essence of grassroots GAA and parochial rivalries. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @megcathwrites.bsky.social

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Futuristic fantasy holds a mirror to today’s world, where it is perhaps not AI we should fear, but those who would use it for nefarious ends. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social

Drawing on biographical detail from CS Lewis’ life, including the death of his Cork-born mother when he was aged 9, Judith McQuoid creates an imaginary friendship between Lewis and her own grandfather. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil for lifetime achievement. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @tg4.bsky.social

The Case of the Secret Signal is historically informative but first and foremost just what a children’s book should be: a damn good [email protected] @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, first held by a nascent Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Mullingar in 1951, was “the most extraordinary thing which happened to traditional music in the 1950s and 1960s on this island”. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

A shape-shifting beast with jagged antlers and red eyes arrives from another time and place but nearly as petrifying is the spine-chilling spectre of peer rejection @Doomsday Club @kmoranwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

'The Last Boy' is at once a story of darkness and hope as Brewster wishes on each star that he will be the last climbing boy. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @everywithwords.bsky.social @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music, Annie Patterson was instrumental in the foundation of Oireachtas na Gaeilge and Feis Ceoil. @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @ucc.bsky.social

“There’s an obvious Irish influence when you listen to Québécois music - whether it’s known about or not.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @canadianirish.bsky.social