10 stories from The Irish Times
There is an expectation of what the Irish novel should look like, the themes explored and the style in which it's delivered. And it's not that our present day authors are moving away from tr…
It's looking as if the scarcely-changed Dublin competition has now become the old fogey, and it's a reconceived Leeds that's pushing the envelope.
This is the history of how the Catholic Church in Ireland influenced the law in the 1930s - and made it possible for any parish priest to stop any dance he didn't like, for any reason, with …
"John Paul Mulready (40) burst into his neighbour's flat brandishing a serrated peeling knife after hammering at the door shouting ... The injured party, Dermot Byrne, told [police] that the…
Brian Dennehy has spent his acting life ‘chasing something different’ from every role, every performance. Now 72, and preparing for ‘The Field’, he tells SARA KEATING…
Dubliner known for roles in Ulysses, Me Mammy, Barbarella and West Wing
IMAGINE A radical new production of The Playboy of the Western World. The director decides that some of the critics of the play in 1907 were right after all. They maintained that Synge was a…
THIS THURSDAY in Kilkenny two of Charles Dickens's direct descendants are helping to stage a play about the life of the 19th-century writer. One of those present will be actor Gerald Dickens…
Cork's arts scene is buzzing with energy and purpose, driven in no small part by a glut of new venues and by some new faces at the helm of the city's favourite arts institutions, writes
"REMOVE THEM from the Beckett Bunker please, Anna," calls director Gavin Quinn. It is a hot July day, which makes the windowless rooms of Dublin's Asylum Studios seem like a cruel enough imp…
