This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
New Ross townhouse with shopfront has been in the Walsh family for more than a century
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
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 misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
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’
After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiences
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installation
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
Theatre: Barbara and Jane Brennan star as the sisters who re-enact scenes from a night 40 years ago in Emma Jordan’s outstanding Dublin production
Barbara and Jane Brennan have come together to star in a new production of Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
I have met inspiring Arab women through my work says Padraig Downey, an Irish theatre maker in Dubai
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
‘I didn’t see myself as a personality. I see myself as an actor. I think those are two distinct jobs’
TV: The Gleesons are a lively double-act, and the scatological jokes arrive at an impressive clip
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
In all great plays, a calamity can be adapted to any circumstance – pandemic, for example
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
The Abbey’s Dear Ireland shows how artists can bring a valuable insight to current events
Theatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this month
Dear Ireland: 50 writers invited to create 50 one-actor pieces that reflect Covid-19 crisis
Lankum singer on the tear-jerking properties of Olivia Colman, and the podcasts of Jon Ronson.
Brenock O’Connor and Zara Devlin star in the new stage version of the hit Irish film
The cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevance
Is the novelist and screenwriter turned playwright fated to follow in his family’s footsteps?
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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