‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration

Journalist says attempts still being made to ‘blacken’ whistleblowers

Politicians, journalists and social justice campaigners among petition signatories

Life in the Free State was no jape, according to Ken Loach's affecting, beautifully shot but somewhat underpowered drama

This simple story is carried off with all the zest and grit we expect from Ken Loach

Fiach MacConghail suggests a UN general assembly be convened in Dublin

Family of the late Princess Grace have denounced the film

The main programme this year is dominated by serious, off-centre film-makers including Loach, Leigh and the Dardennes, while a welcome sprinkling of controversy accompanies a film about the late Princess Grace

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

Signatories supporting call by Afri include former UN assistant secretary general Denis Halliday and ex-Garda Sgt Bernard McCabe

The stage seems densely populated. So how come the dressing rooms are so empty?

A deceptively breezy, carefully constructed story that has a little problem with authority

Help the writer deliver the best play possible. Get the basics right early. Do very little for a successful show, then claim the credit. Welcome to the tricks of the dramaturg’s trade

So says playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner of trying to get your show noticed at the Fringe, which, like negotiating the hilly city itself, can be an uphill slog or a freewheeling delight

The veteran director will take on life story of man deported to US by de Valera government in 1933 because of perceived communist sympathies

An Irishman’s Diary: On the lesser-known journalists who died with Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

Sheehy Skeffington remembered