Artistic director will hand over to successor – the fourth in theatre’s history – within a year

Noelle Middleton: December 18th, 1926 - January 30th, 2016

This house has had top-to-toe treatment since January – when it was bought for €825,000 – being transformed from seven bedsits to a home of tall elegance

‘He wasn’t really difficult,’ says Chuck Workman, director of a compelling new documentary about one of cinema’s giants

The marriage referendum created some new heroines as clowns played on

The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference at the Gate heard illuminating talks about Edwards and Mac Liammóir, Beckett and Friel

Discrimination and alienation suffered by LGBT developed ‘largely by invention’

Mai Geldof: May 20th, 1909 - January 2nd, 2015

Published: February 21st, 1975. Photograph: Jimmy McCormack

Kevin O’Connor: April 25th, 1930 - May 24th, 2014

Boasting such artistic luminaries as Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir among its former residents, Dublin’s Harcourt Terrace has been a magnet for creative types for more than a hundred years. Now number 9 is for auction by its auctioneer owner

Painter, printmaker, architect, designer: Patrick Scott, who has died at the age of 93, made an inestimable contribution to Irish cultural life

America Letter: The film director’s views on the Irish form part of a new book

Durable character actor made his stage debut in Dublin at the age of 12