Culture Night: Your guide to the best events in Dublin and around IrelandOf the 4,000-plus events taking place on Friday 20th, here are the ones we want to go toThu Sept 19 2019 - 12:29
Galway 2020: After the fighting comes a leap in imaginationThe European Capital of Culture creative director avoided confirming how much of €39.7m budget has been raised privatelyThu Sept 19 2019 - 08:26
Year of culture: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture line-up revealedSearch for 2,020 people for community cast for Olympics-style opening spectacleWed Sept 18 2019 - 18:34
Edinburgh Fringe: ‘We’re getting a city bus tour to make a show of ourselves!’Award-winners Gina Moxley and Pat Kinevane celebrate Edinburgh Fringe awardsMon Sept 16 2019 - 12:39
‘Everybody’s life deserves an orchestra’A Dublin breakfast club brings people together, helping to avoid social isolationMon Sept 16 2019 - 05:00
And the winner of this year’s Francis MacManus competition is...RTÉ announces short-story contest winners, all of which will be broadcast on Radio 1Tue Sept 10 2019 - 19:15
Taste of Dublin launches an indoor winter food festival at the RDS‘Festive edition’ of Iveagh Gardens food and drink event expected to draw 18,000 visitorsThu Sept 05 2019 - 12:57
DUP’s Jim Wells will no longer watch Strictly Come Dancing due to inclusion of gay couplesWells has been widely criticised for his remarks, characterised by many as homophobicMon Sept 02 2019 - 15:00
Gird your loins. It’s the FringeDublin’s 16-day festival showcases new voices, unusual venues and 54 world premieresSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Two-thirds of published poets are male, so does poetry have a gender issue?A damning survey of the industry has caused publishers to reflect on their listsSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
Kinky Boots: ‘Two and a half feet of tubular, irresistible sex’A heartwarming tale about cross-dressers and how fetish footwear saved a factoryFri Aug 16 2019 - 06:00
Kilkenny Arts Festival brings light, dark, and a great sense of placeThomas Kilroy’s Callan tales, St Canice’s Cathedral and the rain take on starring rolesWed Aug 14 2019 - 05:00
Dublin Podcast Festival announces 2019 line-upGuilty Feminist, Gay and a NonGay, 2 Johnnies, It Galz, Blindboy, My Favorite MurderThu Aug 08 2019 - 09:38
Ah here. What made Ben Foden get hitched after a fortnight?Una Healy’s ex-husband has just married his girlfriend of two weeks. Can it work?Wed Aug 07 2019 - 14:37
Kilkenny Arts Festival organisers take flagship events outdoors this yearShakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing and multi-sensory spectacular fLux among highlights of festivalSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
A whole town is the set for a giant church-state battleThe Big Chapel X, an adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel, sees the community of Callan, Co Kilkenny, revisiting a dark period of its pastSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Galway International Arts Festival 2019: It has it lickedBurt Bacharach, Gravity & Other Myths, Reem Karssli and Dael OrlandersmithWed Jul 31 2019 - 11:15
Theatre festival director calls for diverse, creative city, and more venuesNew Playboy, bunch of world premieres lined up for this year’s Dublin Theatre FestivalTue Jul 30 2019 - 20:52
Loughinisland massacre documentary nominated for an EmmyNo Stone Unturned, which names suspect, nominated in investigative documentary categoryFri Jul 26 2019 - 10:41
Long, hot summer: How to beat the sweaty Betty bluesSo, how’s your glass box extension now? Not so hot on keeping us cool on these humid daysThu Jul 25 2019 - 06:00
Dublin rappers Versatile criticised over 'misogynist and racist' lyricsThe duo have been attacked on Twitter for their lyrics about black womenWed Jul 24 2019 - 15:50
Galway International Arts Festival: Apres le deluge - the show goes onThe festival hit high notes in its first week with high-profile shows, but it’s the other shows that flesh out a festivalWed Jul 24 2019 - 05:00
‘Make climate change personal in your life’, Mary Robinson urgesFormer president outlines three steps all can take to alter climate change directionSat Jul 20 2019 - 14:15
Going, going, gone: Buckley Galleries hosts final auctionThe hammer fell for the last time in legendary Buckleys of Sandycove this afternoon after 56 years in business and nearly a million lots soldSat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
Festival director calls for dedicated visual arts space for GalwayPaul Fahy says it is ‘shocking’ that city is still without a proper cultural hub and galleryWed Jul 17 2019 - 10:16
Awry, synecdoche and vagina: The read-it-never-said-it words that people mispronouncePeople are sharing their mispronunciations of words they’ve never heard spokenTue Jul 16 2019 - 05:00
Dead Dog in a Suitcase: High-octane theatre for turbulent timesKneehigh’s reworking of The Beggar’s Opera tale of corruption, ineptitude and irresponsibility is coming to GalwaySat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Galway arts festival pop-up gallery: a cathedral of light, height and artAnnual festival has yet again pulled out all the stops to build a temporary galleryThu Jul 11 2019 - 05:00
Electric Picnic: Fine-dining comes to StradballyDerry Clarke and Mark Moriarty will cook for over 300 at this year’s festival banquet in aid of charityWed Jul 10 2019 - 12:25
‘And the animals looked from man to pig and pig to man’ – Readers’ favourite literary linesBook lovers share the bits of JK Rowling, George Orwell and Douglas Adams they love bestMon Jul 08 2019 - 17:13
Battle at the Ivy: Another controversy at the Dublin restaurantFirst, a row over tips. Now, it is claimed, a waiter has been dismissed for joining a unionSat Jul 06 2019 - 06:00
Off the grid but still plugged in: The extraordinary life of Margaret GallagherThe 77-year-old lives as generations before her did, without electricity or running waterSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Six Irish writers on longlist for richest short-story prizeKevin Barry, Danielle McLaughlin in line-up for £30,000 Sunday Times Audible awardMon Jun 24 2019 - 12:20
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious foodPlays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programmeWed Jun 19 2019 - 15:00
‘Just because it is legal for restaurants to keep tips does not make it right’A Bill to give waiters a legal right to keep tips reaches final stage in the Seanad this weekSat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Abortion row: Northern Ireland Screen backs actors who speak outUK government agency responds to calls for entertainment-industry boycott of NorthFri May 31 2019 - 16:38
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know itSelina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead CentreWed May 29 2019 - 17:07
National Concert Hall launches bumper programme for 2019-20Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-upTue May 28 2019 - 15:40
‘I write stories to force adults to think about horrible topics’16-year-old Amy Cahill – author of the story My Mammy Lives in a Box – on writing about suicideTue May 28 2019 - 09:35
Inside Dublin’s Hendrick hotel – big on street art, small on spaceThe hotel in Smithfield, Dublin 7 has more than 270 pieces of art across six storeysMon May 27 2019 - 06:00
Opera about JFK’s tragic sister Rosemary to premiere in JulyIrish National Opera season to also feature new opera set in direct provisionMon May 20 2019 - 19:45
Old Dublin post office transformed into fine dining Chinese restaurantFirst look: Sea of cool blues and greys in €1.6m refurbishment overlooking the seaMon May 20 2019 - 06:00
Theatre workers write to Minister again, frustrated by slow Abbey progress‘We have no confidence that our concerns are a priority for the current management’Mon May 20 2019 - 06:00
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – MurphySat May 18 2019 - 05:00
Galway International Arts Festival unveils line-up for 2019Druid and Irish National Opera premieres, plus Robert Plant and Burt BacharachWed May 15 2019 - 13:00
The most Irish thing ever? Ballyhaunis Three identified in quick timeTwitter reunites phoneless Mayo men with their New York holiday photographTue May 14 2019 - 11:35
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry HynesTue May 14 2019 - 11:00
Uproar over closure of UCD’s Campus BookshopIssues over length of license leads Hanna family to shut up shop after 41 yearsMon May 13 2019 - 15:30
Meghan Markle shock: Stilettos aside, she looks like a woman who’s just had a babyPrince Archie’s mum – the baby’s name has been revealed – looks refreshingly naturalWed May 08 2019 - 14:30
The second World War ‘Éire’ sign rescued from a Dublin cliffsideDogged detective work and a huge voluntary effort have brought a piece of history back to lifeSat May 04 2019 - 06:00
