‘People forget that Brian Friel was a radical’
Des Kennedy, head of the Everyman, is directing Making History, about Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, as the first production in the Cork theatre’s Everyman Made series
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TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
April 6th-11th: including Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now; Grace; Reunion; and Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood
Prime Target review: Saltburn meets The Da Vinci Code in tremendously silly technothriller
Television: Leo Woodall of One Day fame joins Stephen Rea in this riotous romp that has the courage to take itself seriously and never once winks at the camera
The Guide: Dara Ó Briain, Lisa O’Neill, TradFest and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
January 18th-24th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Amitav Ghosh: ‘Ireland is where the British created all their colonial methods, it’s where they tried it out first’
Acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s new work explores how the climate crisis has its roots in European colonialism
The Ban: What did barring Sinn Féin voices from the airwaves do to political culture?
Roisin Agnew on her new film, which is being screened as part of the IFI Documentary Festival 2024
The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
May 18th-24th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Krapp’s Last Tape review: Stephen Rea invites us to applaud the tape recorder – but the triumph is his
The actor had the forethought to record Krapp’s early tapes 12 years ago. What a pleasure to see, and hear, the result in the intimacy of Project Arts Centre
Krapp’s Last Tape: The acting greats who have taken on Samuel Beckett’s one-man play
Stephen Rea is about to join an illustrious line-up that includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Patrick Magee
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
January 6th-12th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
2024 on stage: 20 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
Stephen Rea brings Krapp back home, Hamilton comes to Dublin and Irish National Opera stages Salome
Thomas Kilroy’s death feels like the end of an era for Irish theatre
The writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel
Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’
From giving modern classics their first Irish productions to nurturing new work from key Irish names, Landmark has had an outsize impact over the past 20 years
Brian Friel’s Translations, in Ukrainian: ‘This is about everything that is happening in Ukraine’
Kyiv’s Lesya Ukrainka theatre company is visiting Dublin to stage its evocative production of the classic Irish play at the Abbey
Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Nightride: One-last-job yarn set in Belfast splutters over the line
Moe Dunford impresses in a thriller that just manages to keep its real-time gimmick going
Imelda May joins Tourism Ireland bid to attract British visitors
Two-part Sky Arts series sees singer present Irish ‘literary travelogue’
Plea for Minister to stop deportation of man in direct provision for six years
Formerly ‘bubbly’ man now ‘a shadow of his former self’, campaigners tell Minister
Family and friends bid final farewell to Seamus Deane
Mourners hear of ‘a very indulgent father to all his children’ and ‘devoted Celtic fan’
Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
Filming a live play during Covid: ‘We were playing Russian roulette’
Producing David Ireland’s Sadie at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for TV was nerve-wracking
Neil Jordan: ‘I couldn’t make The Crying Game today’
The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film
Wolfwalkers: Cartoon Saloon has made its best film yet
Review: A family entertainment set among the Cromwellian atrocities? Sounds risky
A line-by-line, death-by-death reminder of the evil of the Troubles
Unquiet Graves details the grim work of the loyalist Glennane Gang of the 1970s
Irish artists join international call for Israel to end siege of Gaza amid coronavirus
More than 200 artists back Amnesty International’s call for military embargo
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Jesse Eisenberg’s Irish film: ‘It’s about the desperation of wanting to buy a house’
Far from unlikeable, the star of horror Vivarium is a refreshingly honest interviewee
Stephen Rea says people should quietly prepare for ‘inevitable’ united Ireland
Actor stage tribute to poet Ciaran Carson in Kilmainham Gaol as part of TradFest
Irish Water granted permission for €500m north Dublin sewage plant
Facility at Clonshaugh will be State’s second-largest sewage plant after Ringsend
Neil Jordan’s film production company returns to profit
Accumulated profits at Sunwind Enterprises, co-owned by Dubliner, increased to €2.8m
Miriam O’Callaghan runs close to caricature of herself
Review: By the end of a compelling interview, O’Callaghan positively embraces her self-parodying side
Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland
Hearing on plan for €500m north Dublin sewage plant to begin
Irish Water seeks permission for State’s second-largest sewage plant in
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