Taking a bow for Irish theatre‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre AwardsSat Mar 12 2016 - 05:00
Ballymagash to Craggy Island: Five great Frank Kelly creationsComedian played a range of memorable and lovable characters on television and radioSun Feb 28 2016 - 20:20
Late Frank Kelly was loved by generations of Irish peopleArticulate, charming actor could not have been further removed from Fr Jack’s personalitySun Feb 28 2016 - 17:18
Feeder schools: Social class still drives school league tablesStudents in more affluent areas of Dublin are four times more likely to go to collegeThu Dec 03 2015 - 01:00
Striking contrasts by post code in third-level take-upProximity to universities outside Dublin influences the likelihood of college progression, while Clare records highest rate at 92%Thu Dec 03 2015 - 01:00
Cog Notes: Young pianist wins Fr Frank Maher Classical Music AwardEoin Fleming hopes to study under John O’Conor in VirginiaTue Nov 24 2015 - 05:00
President praises ‘Irish Times’ philosophy bookMichael D Higgins welcomes publication ‘Unthinkable: Great Ideas for Now’Wed Nov 11 2015 - 01:00
A national ID card by any other name?Opinion: The card will contain my name, date of birth, PPS number, photo, an electronic signature, but it will also be technically possible to add biometric information such as fingerprints and eye scans. Should I be worried?Thu Oct 22 2015 - 21:00
Cog Notes: The birth of a diverse Dublin school caught on cameraRTÉ1’s ‘A Different Class’ captures the foundation of an Education Together school in OngarTue Oct 20 2015 - 06:00
Cog Notes: Primary school start-ups have teachers’ approvalMore than 10,000 primary school children took part in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme last yearTue Sept 15 2015 - 00:00
The ferry from France without a cabin: ‘Tattooed Two are spooned into each other like lovers’It’s a 21st century dilemma for the soft middle classes. Cabin fever becomes a passage of nightTue Aug 25 2015 - 12:30
Studying in Europe is an increasingly attractive optionThe number of Irish students opting to study through English in continental European colleges is on the rise, and it’s easy to see whyMon Aug 17 2015 - 19:00
Cog Notes: Portal to a new era for arts in educationWell-attended website launch marks first tangible result of Arts in Education CharterMon May 25 2015 - 18:00
Cog Notes: Baboró’s take on creative scienceThis beast of a project reports a positive change in children’s attitudes to scienceMon May 18 2015 - 16:00
How to prepare for a future of studyCollege Choice: Forget the Leaving Cert. Doing research now on how you want to spend your life will lessen chances of making a mistake. And there’s time to change your mindWed Jan 28 2015 - 16:17
School league tables: Which schools have improved the most?Schools in disadvantaged areas are seeing a rise in the number of students progressing to college but inequalities still remain. For more analysis see the full tables in today's newspaperThu Nov 27 2014 - 06:00
Chalktalk: News and view in educationAnother day off as some schools close for electionsTue May 20 2014 - 02:00
Chalktalk: News and views in educationNo transparency when schools are not open to Freedom of InformationTue Mar 18 2014 - 02:00
School League Tables: read between the linesLook at 71% of the published percentages for a more accurate picture of how a school is doing academicallyTue Nov 26 2013 - 12:00
Young voicesTwenty-four glorious voices filled a room in the Mansion House, Dublin, last weekend, as part of the Irish Youth Chamber Choir…Sat Mar 02 2013 - 00:00
Bog trottersIt takes three years for a footprint to disappear from the soft moss surface of a bogSat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
Like clockworkMiniature devices, full of clockwork-powered moving treasure and delight make for a fascinating exhibition at Mermaid Arts Centre…Sat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
Calling all Amy Green bookloversTake note young booklovers and wannabe book editors – Irish children’s author Sarah Webb is on the lookout for two young (10-…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Dancing Children of LirIrish audiences can get a taster of ballerina and artistic director Monica Loughman’s new Irish ballet-in-progress, Chlainne …Sat Sept 22 2012 - 01:00
What do you remember?In the late-1970s, the late jazzman Humphrey Lyttelton was performing at the Belfast Festival and had to play his trumpet for…Sat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
Irish ceramics with a Chinese twistYou don’t have to travel to the Far East to see some Irish ceramics inspired by ChinaSat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
Curtain rises on an expanded opera festival in WexfordWEXFORD TOWN was en fete on Saturday night for the opening of the 59th Wexford Festival Opera.Mon Oct 18 2010 - 01:00
Hungry hangovers: fine food for the morning afterLEAVING ASIDE the hair of the dog, one of the most common antidotes to a night on the tiles is comfort foodMon Oct 18 2010 - 01:00
Ploughing a creative furrow with Mossad and a peace pintASRTSCAPE: GRUDGES CAN LAST a long time in Ireland, and a 30-year row between regulars and a Dublin city-centre pub seems to…Sat Apr 17 2010 - 01:00
On a department's cultural evolutionARTSCAPE: THE REACTION TO the fate of the Arts portfolio in this week’s minimalist rearrangement of the deckchairs was strikingly…Sat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irish National Opera is bornARTSCAPE : OUTGOING MINISTER for Arts Martin Cullen is expected to announce, on Monday, the foundation of the Irish National…Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00
A crossroads for Irish cultureARTSCAPE: WHERE TO NOW for the arts department, having lost a Minister and with a question mark over the Government’s entire…Sat Mar 13 2010 - 00:00
Happy birthday, Mr MurphyARTSCAPE: SO, how old is Tom Murphy? Fintan O’Toole, speaking about how Murphy is “one of the great contributors to the emotional…Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
Behind closed doors in the theatre worldARTSCAPE: ANOTHER HALF A million, swipe. GoneSat Feb 13 2010 - 00:00
The cap fits, but tax appeal is the problemARTSCAPE: WHAT’S UP with the artists’ tax exemption? Actually, what’s down is its cap, from €250,000 to €125,000, along with…Sat Feb 06 2010 - 00:00
Hot news on opera, galleries merger and AbbeyARTSCAPE : THE THREE galleries – National Gallery, Imma and Crawford – will now not be amalgamated, the Minister for Arts, Martin…Sat Dec 12 2009 - 00:00
Moving Abbey to GPO would save millions, claims CullenTHE PLAN to move the Abbey to the GPO will cost about half what moving to the docklands would have done, and will help rejuvenate…Sat Dec 12 2009 - 00:00
Getting on with some good newsARTSCAPE: TO HELL WITH all this misery and bad news and interminable and pointless speculation about the BudgetSat Dec 05 2009 - 00:00
Saving the paintings as the floods rise in the galleryARTSCAPE: ‘SOME AMAZING saves” have resulted from the emergency conservation work continuing at UCC’s Glucksman Gallery in Cork…Sat Nov 28 2009 - 00:00
Visions of McCarthylandARTSCAPE: ‘I AM AN Irish citizen, a creature of this place,” said Sebastian BarrySat Oct 17 2009 - 01:00
Grass roots start to growARTSCAPE: THERE WAS A sort of alignment this week: the assertion of the importance of culture at Farmleigh, a double Emmy win…Sat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00
