Tom Murphy

Playwright

Paul Mescal to return to Irish stage in ‘taut, explosive, pressure cooker of a play’

Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy

Tue Apr 29 2025 - 19:32

‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House

Sat Sept 21 2024 - 05:30

The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind

Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad

Thu Sept 19 2024 - 10:52

Blackrock four-bed with lots of work-from-home space for €1.95m

Avoca Road house has large open-plan living space and attic conversion

Thu Feb 03 2022 - 06:00

Fintan O’Toole: This Christmas, remember what children give to us

They deserve medals from the State for being heroes throughout the pandemic

Tue Dec 21 2021 - 01:00

Fyffes records €170m loss amid melon and mushroom asset charges

Chairman David McCann and finance chief Tom Murphy share €7.46m in exit pay

Wed Sept 01 2021 - 05:35

Defamation action withdrawn from jury as judge finds court report fair and accurate

Suggestion there was burden on Kilkenny People to background check court evidence was ‘simply untenable’, says judge

Tue Jul 13 2021 - 14:52

RTÉ application to lift order banning naming of child murderer adjourned

Judge puts matter to Monday out of ‘abundance of caution’, court told

Fri May 07 2021 - 13:08

Tom Hickey’s work ‘spoke to our private selves’, funeral hears

Son ‘overwhelmed’ by depth of feeling towards actor who died last week

Thu May 06 2021 - 17:41

Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died

President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’

Sun May 02 2021 - 15:25

‘Danno’ – Francis Brendan Heaslip – the quintessential Galwegian

An Appreciation

Sun Mar 07 2021 - 15:01

Fintan O’Toole: Defeat for Donald Trump will shape our world

What is at stake when the US votes on Tuesday? Almost everything

Sat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00

President pays tribute to Mike Cooley, ‘one of the finest Irish scientists’

Tuam native placed the human at centre of technological innovation

Sun Sept 06 2020 - 13:04

Marie Mullen to lead Lady Gregory cast as Druid returns to live theatre

DruidGregory begins a 15-venue tour at Coole Park, the writer’s Galway estate, next month

Wed Aug 12 2020 - 09:00

Angling Notes: Waterville lakes now open, new Currane Fisheries club opens

A great old yarn: Zane Grey’s hammerhead catch

Mon Jul 13 2020 - 09:31

Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love

Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown

Sat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00

‘God couldn’t have come up with a better pathogen to attack theatre’

Druid was on the up before coronavirus. Now it must reimagine how the show can go on

Sat May 30 2020 - 03:00

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Sat May 02 2020 - 05:00

The Cherry Orchard: Druid’s Hiberno-Russian cocktail spills over

This staging of Tom Murphy’s Chekhov adaptation should resonate more with contemporary Irish audiences

Thu Feb 27 2020 - 12:26

Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power

Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00

Ian-Lloyd Anderson: On My Culture Radar

Actor on The Irishman, the early comedy of Bernie Mac and acting talent of Edie Falco

Sat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00

Fintan O'Toole: Safety-first politics has had its day

We have devised the most risk-averse political system in the democratic world. But more of the same is no longer the safe bet

Tue Jan 21 2020 - 11:59

Bohemians show no mercy as they hit sorry UCD for 10

Andre Wright scores four as league’s basement side are routed at sodden Dalymount

Fri Aug 16 2019 - 21:49

FAI Cup round-up: Georgie Kelly secures safe passage for holders Dundalk

UCD get over early fright against Letterkenny as Crumlin United come from behind to win

Sun Aug 11 2019 - 17:44

Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

Fri Jul 19 2019 - 14:00

Dubliners can now use app to check if trucks have permit to drive in city

A cordon banning heavy goods vehicles has been in place since 2007

Mon Jul 15 2019 - 16:28

‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’

US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany

Sat Jun 29 2019 - 05:00

Evening Train review: Two young men on the edge of escape, one reckless, the other desperate

It’s the simplicity of the story that resonates in this musical based on Mick Flannery’s concept album

Mon Jun 17 2019 - 14:05

Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?

Morrissey was once an Anglo-Irish critic of Britishness, but he is now a far-right icon

Tue Jun 04 2019 - 05:00

‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’

A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy

Sat May 18 2019 - 05:00