Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Eileen Walsh
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Passion play: Cork theatre fights for its future
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
Cillian Murphy: ‘Moving home from London was the best thing we did’
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Girl on an Altar: Eileen Walsh and David Walmsley bring a muscular energy to Marina Carr’s searing new play
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Sue Ryder Foundation ordered to pay shop steward €14,000 for unfair dismissal
Eileen Walsh, a night supervisor, claims she was unfairly selected for redundancy
New York’s Irish Arts Center gets a new lease of life
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brain
Film review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the misery
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
The two best theatre shows on this week
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights
Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting
Beginning review: Beautifully measured tale of love in a time of social media
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play
Love in a modern climate: is romance just an antidote to loneliness?
David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Women on the Verge: Maelstrom of a comedy from Sharon Horgan
Did you sleep with more than two women during our break-up, she asks. ‘In a good week, yeah,” he replies
Hollywood parties? ‘The whole thing would make you sick’
Tipperary woman Kerry Condon's first lead role, in Sharon Horgan’s Women on the Verge, brought new pressures
The Children Act: Just let the film die, Emma Thompson
Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel
Cyprus Avenue and The Plough and the Stars: the best theatre of the week
Stephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returns
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expect
The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn
Former church sexton ordered to leave her home
Eileen Walsh given less than a fortnight to quit the house she has lived in for 35 years
The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars
Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison
Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway
Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill
Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’
Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything
The Plough and the Stars review: The poverty of our era put centre stage
The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?
‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’
Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre
Calling the shots: A life in the day of a stage manager
It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings
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