The Treaty review: Intrigue and subterfuge in this gender-blind story of freedom
Jane Brennan gives a mesmerising emulation of de Valera’s paced, crystal voice
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Exhibition of Anglo-Irish Treaty portraits marks centenary of talks
Lavery portraits of both sides on view at Irish Embassy in London – ‘The Art of Negotiation’
Anglo-Irish Treaty set for public display to mark State centenary
Contentious document signed on December 6th, 1921, establishing the Irish Free State
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Radio: Doireann Garrihy, Donncha O’Callaghan and Carl Mullan front the zany new show
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy show
TV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance test
50 people to watch in 2021: The best young talent in Ireland
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ClassicsNow festival set to bring ancient Greece and Rome to life
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’
Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike
Patrick Kielty: ‘We weren’t sure how many people would turn up – 400 queued around the corner’
Comedy barely figured in Belfast until the 1990s. Then Kielty and Colin Murphy arrived
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin’s answer to St Francis of Assisi canvasses in Waterford
Heartwarming tale of a starling, a hedgehog, a badger and the local election candidate
After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland
The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions
Kilkenny Cat Laughs 2019 line-up: Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Alison Spittle
Dara Ó Briain, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo and Jena Friedman also on 25th festival bill
Aryzta reports results and Construction Summit hits town
Business This Week: results, indicators and meetings for the week ahead
The Bailout: One day we’ll look back and laugh. But not yet
Review: Colin Murphy’s politicians try to get their heads around an €85bn disaster
Miriam Lord: Ó Broin’s PR tricks to highlight flaw in Murphy’s Law
Attack ad the latest bout in sparring match between two south Dublin private schoolboys
Theatre of the week: Swan Lake reimagined and the Gregory deal remembered
Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week
GPO celebrates its 200th anniversary with performance and stamp
Dublin’s most famous historical building is also the world’s oldest working post office
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
RTÉ to make follow-up to 1916 Rising drama Rebellion
Sound and Vision Fund backs Rebellion: Two States, to be set during War of Independence
An Irishwoman walks into a bar... Shona McCarthy on taking charge of the Edinburgh Fringe
The new director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival high hopes for her role leading this ‘explosion of the arts’ - including the Funniest Joke of the Fringe
Inside the GPO review: At the centre stage of the action
Fishamble’s diligent, vigorous production pursues a simple question – what makes people do what they do – towards a complicated answer
Theatre of war: the plays putting the Rising rebels back on the streets
Two site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productions
Dublin Theatre Festival opens with 28 shows in store
Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety
The Guarantee review: like watching men push at a door marked pull for 80 minutes
Ian Power’s bailout drama captures the yahoo patriarchy of bankers but is ultimately let down by a lack of subtlety
The Guarantee: the unmaking of modern Ireland
‘A bleak portrait of the end of a pocket empire’. Writer Colin Murphy and producer John Kelleher tell Donald Clarke about bringing the story of the most expensive bank bailout in history to the big screen
TV3’s autumn schedule to feature ‘TDs on welfare’
Programming features mixture of old and new faces as well as Irish-produced film
‘Cinderella’ Ireland stars in bank guarantee film
Based on the play by Colin Murphy, ‘The Guarantee’ goes into production this month
The bank guarantee: a farce restaged as a tragedy
Colin Murphy’s play of the events leading up to the 2008 bank guarantee contains the tensions of his dual identities as journalist and dramatist, and a new run introduces the coarse voices of the Anglo tapes
What’s the difference between a comedian and an economist?
Boundaries between the funny folk and money folk dissolve at Kilkenomics Festival
Narrative of Anglo’s demise comes with faulty guarantee
Colin Murphy’s production ‘Guaranteed’ does a brilliant job of challenging the consensus about the events of September 2008
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