Fra Fee: ‘I was completely terrified of coming out in Northern Ireland’
Cabaret star’s acting career has taken him from Tyrone to West End and LA
Megan Cusack fronts domestic-violence campaign in chilling abuse video
Irish actor joins FKA Twigs and Leah Harvey to push for enactment of Valerie’s Law in UK
Megan Cusack: ‘I can’t help but feel I’ve got something to live up to’
The Call the Midwife actor is the latest generation of the Cusack acting dynasty
Britain’s Irish community raises its voice at Brexit protest
Demonstrators play folk songs as they rally against British government’s ‘nonsense’
View from the UK: What does it mean to be a national theatre?
It’s not just in Ireland that questions of how a national theatre should reflect a country’s identity are being asked
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Royal Irish Academy of Music set for €20m transformation by 2021
Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy
Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for ‘the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair’ to be taken down
Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects
Jeremy Irons on #MeToo: ‘I don't think censorship is a good idea’
The 69-year-old award winning actor on #MeToo, longevity, life without social media, and that now-infamous photocall with his ‘Red Sparrow’ co-star Jennifer Lawrence
Miriam Lord: Juncker’s MEP outburst disrupts bloc party
Meanwhile, Leo proves to be the perfect host as Fine Gael looks forward to summer nights
Mozart and the Bard headline 59th Dublin Theatre Festival
‘Don Giovanni’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Seagull’ on the bill for 2016
Anne Harris: Denigration of Gore-Booth sisters reveals Yeats’s flinty heart
Poet’s behaviour mirrors that of many patriarchal institutions, particularly – and ironically – the Catholic Church
Dublin Theatre Festival more than doubles profits
Profits at firm that operates theatre festival last year increased by 151 per cent
Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced
‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations
Stephen Rea recognised for outstanding contribution
The best in theatre of past year are honoured at ‘Irish Times’ award show
Stephen Rea to receive Irish Times Special Tribute Award
Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Win a night of drama and decadence at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards and the Dean Hotel Dublin
Celebrate with the stars at one of the year’s biggest theatre events
Charlie Murphy: from Love/Hate to zen
As she gears up for a Christmas reunion with her extended family back in her native Wexford, Charlie Murphy pauses to chat about a ridiculously busy year
Culture Shock: Reality check at Dublin Theatre Festival
The audience and the city had important roles to play in this year’s festival, closing the gap between reality and fiction
Review: Our Few and Evil Days
Nevermind Mark O’Rowe’s return to dialogue, does his family tragedy for the Abbey signal a new commitment to realism? Or is anything here as it seems?
Sam Reid plays it posh again but has sights on less plummy parts
Sam Reid seems to have a monopoly on posh English parts. A soldiering stint is next for the Australian actor
Mark O’Rowe on the power to shock – and feel
The plays of the ‘Howie the Rookie’ writer are dark, complex affairs. With his new work, ‘Our Few and Evil Days’, about to open at the Abbey Theatre, even he admits he doesn’t fully know what makes them tick
Larger than life actor Peter O’Toole remembered at Old Vic
Áras holding star’s ashes ahead of final journey – along Clifden’s Sky Road
‘Calvary’ takes best actor and writer awards at IFTAs
Story of rural priest is star of annual film and television event in Dublin
Father and son go head -to-head in IFTAs
Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson nominated in the best actor category
Actor Jeremy Irons to become ‘honorary’ Cork man
Oscar-winner has lived at Kilcoe Castle in West Cork since the late 1990s
President celebrates ‘freedom’ of the arts but gives nothing away on Áras goings-on
Michael D Higgins opens new film school facility in Dún Laoghaire
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
Sea, culture and culinary art as usual at Kinsale Arts Festival
The festival augments what the town has anyway, but this year’s event has not been all plain-sailing
Actor and director on both sides of Atlantic
Vincent Dowling: born September 7th, 1929; died May 10th, 2013
Plan to sell Coillte harvesting rights may be shelved
Senior Coalition figure says Coillte plan ‘not a priority’
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