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Due to technical issues, we have migrated our library blog to WordPress.   The Blogger platform served us well for two decades, but some...

Whilst we are in lockdown, e-resource providers are kindly upgrading our access to a number of databases. So, musicians, we now have Mus...

Former graduate of RCS David Ireland's play Cyrus Avenue can be watched on the Royal Court website at this time.   Click Here to Acce...

Photo of the  Royal Court Theatre  in Chelsea in London, Burnley . (CC) Court at Home If you are wondering what to do with yourself du...

HEADSPACE Finding things hard going at the moment?  Check out this stress management resource , the link below gives you free access to ...

The celebrated Irish theatre company Druid Theatre and Wildfire Films have made the 2005 award-winning production of  The Playboy of the ...

Shakespeare's Birthday 2020: Virtual Events Join the Folger for virtual events to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday at home. T...

Bachtrack are curating a list of performances that can be streamed online from opera houses and concert halls. So check out what Bachtrack h...

The Met Opera, New York.  Met launches "Nightly Met Opera Streams", a free series of encore Live in HD presentations stre...

Berlin Philharmoniker During the coronavirus lockdown period the Berlin Philharmoniker has given 30 days of free access to the Digital ...

Access to over 700 textbooks on Cambridge Core for third level students. (login with institutional password)  CUP have made higher educati...

In this time of lockdown why not rediscover Theatre Voice. A platform for podcasts about UK theatre.   The latest podcast is an interview w...

Sadler Wells have launched a Digital Stage and will be screening archive performances, special one-offs created just for the screen and danc...

In this time of lockdown the NT (National Theatre UK) will be broadcasting some of their most popular productions weekly on Thursdays at 7 p...

Audio Interview with Directors CHRIS SONNEX AND DAVID RALF.  In 2016 Joshua McTaggart and Joel Fisher converted an underground car park in s...

We've just been sent fliers for a prestigious conducting competition.  The competition takes place in March 2021, but the deadline for a...

. A couple of years ago, one of our librarians was awarded an AHRC networking grant to establish the Claimed From Stationers' Hall n...

Whilst we were closed, we were notified of a couple of lovely Irish digital music exhibitions from the Irish Traditional Music Archive.  Do ...

A research network based at the University of Glasgow has created a beautiful website detailing the stories behind a wide range of songs fro...

A rather interesting series of blogposts was recently announced by rare music and manuscripts dealer, Simon Beattie. Chiming nicely with ...