Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
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The city has its troubles, but it also has a cultural robustness that took the edge off some of the difficulties
Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July
The great-granddaughter of the playwright Seán O’Casey is doing the family name proud, starring in two new films, Lies We Tell and The Miracle Club
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Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
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
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway
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Dispute among owners understood to have halted sale of playwright’s house to city council
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
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Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Sale of some 350 lots includes paintings, bronzes, prints, antique furniture, china and silver
Councillors to propose that playwright’s house be used as a cultural centre
Nine-fold decrease in chance of a baby dying during pregnancy since 1960s
Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation
Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation
Council ‘not overly confident’ money to buy property could be secured due to Covid-19
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
RTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedom
Immense task of reconstruction will demand much more than frantic improvisation
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Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
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