Irish Book Awards 2023 shortlist: Paul Murray, Liz Nugent, Liam Brady and PJ Gallagher nominatedWinners of the 18th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in NovemberThu Oct 19 2023 - 18:30
Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Paul Murray among authors calling for end to destruction in PalestineFormer hostage John McCarthy and many leading Irish writers, actors and musicians among signatories of London Review of Books open letterThu Oct 19 2023 - 13:21
One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV review: An exhilarating, raucous meditation on grief, and on lifeDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s creation, which closes this year’s festival, is a feat of endurance and an act of hopeMon Oct 16 2023 - 08:46
Fall and Float review: A charming, playful, skilful show for young audiences, full of discovery, play and balloonsDublin Theatre Festival 2023: The children at the Ark are audibly delighted and amused, gasping and giggling throughout Mónica Muñoz’s productionFri Oct 13 2023 - 12:29
RTÉ needs State money to fund voluntary job cuts, director general tells staffKevin Bakhurst says he will present a strategic plan in early November to reduce numbersWed Oct 11 2023 - 18:31
Terry Prone: ‘I never do parties, dinners. I’ve always been reclusive and shy’The communications guru, writer and broadcaster’s memoir is full of contradictions, just like the woman herselfSun Oct 08 2023 - 06:00
Forró dancing at Grand Canal Square: ‘I love it, it’s fun, it reminds me of Brazil’It feels tropical, a hot-country thing, this social dancing outdoors for pleasure. Could this really be Dublin? writes Deirdre FalveySat Sept 23 2023 - 05:00
Tony Cantwell’s Sketch Show review: Charming and inventive with silly flights of fancyDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The comedian enjoys his games and riffs, and so does the audienceFri Sept 22 2023 - 12:40
Culture Night 2023: A guide of 26 events to see and do this FridayWith more than 1,700 events across Ireland, all free, there is plenty to keep you busy this Friday nightFri Sept 22 2023 - 08:01
Persona Metropolitana review: An exhilarating love song to the nature of citiesDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Evocative, thoughtful, entertaining and uplifting about the nature of urban lifeThu Sept 21 2023 - 11:27
When the Moon Spun Round: Fidget Feet turn Yeats’s poems for children into a stage showDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol ConnectedSat Sept 16 2023 - 05:30
The Garden of Shadows review: A magical and haunting coming together of nature, technology and artDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Botanic Gardens is skilfully transformed and feels so different in the darkFri Sept 15 2023 - 11:59
Drainage Scheme review: Deception, back-scratching and cute-hoorismDublin Fringe Festival 2023: It’s a highly unusual topic and setting: a family-run drainage scheme in Co KerryWed Sept 13 2023 - 11:17
Hothouse review: Deadly serious and wildly funnyDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Sharp, nuanced script rips along under Claire O’Reilly’s assured, quirky directionMon Sept 11 2023 - 10:33
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, his former sister-in-law and the paintings that sparked a copyright rowLize McCarron claims Wood copied her photos of the band's Voodoo Lounge sessions for a suite of paintings without her permissionSat Sept 09 2023 - 06:30
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: 21 shows to catch, from comedy to cabaret, clubbing and wrestlingThere’s something for everyone this year, even children will have acts to choose from as part of this year’s eventMon Sept 04 2023 - 05:30
‘It’s like being on a roller coaster’: David Francis Moore’s first year as Dublin Fringe Festival directorAfter taking over the role from Ruth McGowan in May, Moore emphasises the importance of the festival for emerging artistsSat Sept 02 2023 - 05:00
Listowel Writers’ Week, the curator’s story: ‘It was an oppressive atmosphere’Stephen Connolly says he experienced hostility and anti-Northern bias from people angry at changes to Kerry festivalSat Aug 19 2023 - 06:00
Mother of All the Behans: Imelda May sings gloriously – and shows an eye for bringing characters to lifeTheatre: This revival of Rosaleen Linehan’s one-woman show throws the singer in at the deep end, but she delivers a highly entertaining eveningThu Aug 17 2023 - 12:23
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: 12 moments we’ll remember Including The Pulse, Colm Meaney’s Galway tribute, David Mach’s exploding installation, Luke Murphy’s explosive dance, and the epic DruidO’CaseyTue Aug 01 2023 - 05:00
You’ll See...: Ulysses for kids, with a star turn from the charming, funny, knowing Helen Gregg Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appealFri Jul 28 2023 - 07:04
Life & Times of Michael K: A magical staging of JM Coetzee’s sweeping, epic taleGalway International Arts Festival 2023: Handspring’s astonishing puppetry brings Michael K and his mother to lifeWed Jul 26 2023 - 11:45
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The best shows to book, and how to get bargain ticketsThis year’s festival blends stage with cinema, dance, installation and more – with lots of €10 admissionsTue Jul 25 2023 - 09:00
‘I’m waiting for somebody to say, I love Dublin – it needs a fantastic cultural infrastructure’Willie White of Dublin Theatre Festival holds forth on the current state of the capital’s nightlife, and its need for a new municipal venueTue Jul 25 2023 - 09:00
‘The fresh air is good for the head’: The joy and community to be found in city allotmentsClondalkin Global Garden Community is a sheltered haven that came about to help reconnect people with their cultures and as an outlet for localsSat Jul 22 2023 - 06:00
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: 562 performances in 32 venues, including 45 world and 18 Irish premieresThis year’s festival, featuring everything from sound-and-light installations to wrestling, begins on September 9thWed Jul 19 2023 - 19:00
Every Brilliant Thing: An enjoyable, interactive and life-affirming monologue about mental healthGalway International Arts Festival 2023: Clare Barrett is vulnerable and utterly charming in managing the vagaries of improvised audience participationWed Jul 19 2023 - 16:20
Not a Word: An evocative, heartrending play about yearning and forgotten livesGalway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a wordWed Jul 19 2023 - 16:08
Cloakroom: A gorgeous slice of adolescence about to blossom into new possibilitiesGalway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installationTue Jul 18 2023 - 16:09
The Pulse: Jaw-dropping acrobatics, exquisite singing, ferocious skillGalway International Arts Festival 2023: Gravity & Other Myths’ outstanding show stretches the limits of what a human body can doTue Jul 18 2023 - 13:29
Galway International Arts Festival: 15 events you don’t want to missIncluding DruidO’Casey, The Saw Doctors, Bedbound and more, this year’s festival programme has heft and depthMon Jul 10 2023 - 06:30
Grazing in Lucan: Italian ambassador’s residence opens to public with herd of buffalo sculpturesDavide Rivalte’s outsized bronze lioness is already on show at Dublin Castle. Now a whole herd of his animal sculptures has landedThu Jun 29 2023 - 05:30
Stephen Murphy wins RCSI award for a sculpture of his premature newborn son‘Our baby, PJ, he’s a miracle – I’m not kidding. He had so many obstacles, he shouldn’t even exist’Wed Jun 28 2023 - 19:20
Kaleidoscope Festival 2023: Line-up, tickets, weather forecast and moreEverything you need to know about the family-friendly festival taking place at Russborough House, Co Wicklow from Friday, June 30th to Sunday, July 2ndWed Jun 28 2023 - 10:15
Mother-of-12 to start studying medicine: ‘I stopped worrying colleges were going to laugh at me’Dubliner Rosemary Murphy (40) says she fought hard for a college place and is determined to make her dream come trueSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Kilkenny Arts Festival’s 2023 line-up: From Light Up the Castle to eavesdropping in the localIt’s been a year like no other for the festival team, who ‘had to find a couple of extra gears’ to get ready for AugustWed Jun 21 2023 - 10:00
Tom Hanks entertains Dalkey with accents, anecdotes and the Irish director who gave him a chanceUS actor was speaking at the Dalkey Book Festival and discussed his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture MasterpieceFri Jun 16 2023 - 20:54
Bloomsday, Dalkey Book Festival, Body & Soul, Borris, Sea Sessions, Beyond the Pale and more: here’s what you need to knowA blizzard of festivals hits this weekend. From stage times to getting there, here’s a lot of what you need to know if you’re heading to these eventsThu Jun 15 2023 - 21:01
15 kid-friendly festivals and cultural events for all the family this summerFrom arts festivals to gigs, dance shows to mini-raves, here’s our round up of cultural events for all ages over the coming monthsFri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
‘A beast of a musician’: Video showing concertina master Cormac Begley goes viralOther Voices posts video of musician playing concertina garnering more than half a million viewsThu Jun 08 2023 - 15:11
First Look: Live like a student in new tourist accommodation at Trinity’s Printing House SquareVisitors can indulge their Normal People college-life fantasies as city centre student housing opens for summer bookings at competitive rates – by Dublin standards at leastWed Jun 07 2023 - 12:42
Jump into summer: 50 great days out around Ireland for all the familyThere’s something to suit all ages, interests, locations and budgets in our ultimate guide to keeping the whole family entertained this summerSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Green & Blue review: The terror and brutality of the Troubles, but humour, understanding and empathy tooTheatre: James Doran and Vincent Higgins give strong, well-judged performances as a garda and an RUC man patrolling the Border in the 1990sWed May 31 2023 - 17:52
First Look: National Library of Ireland’s new director leads her first monthly tour of its historic Dublin homeDr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’Wed May 31 2023 - 05:12
Exam stress is in the air. Could hypnosis, havening or CBT be the answer?With a Leaving Cert student at home, Deirdre Falvey is open to suggestions but sceptical about hypnotherapySat May 20 2023 - 05:00
The best Irish summer festivals in 2023: a handy guide to over 60 events around the countryFrom Dalkey Book Festival and All Together Now, to Electric Picnic and Clifden Arts Festival, there is no shortage of entertainment across the country this summerMon May 15 2023 - 10:50
First Paul Cézanne painting in Ireland unveiled by National GalleryAnonymous donor contributes ‘very generous’ sum for purchase of La Vie des ChampsFri May 12 2023 - 13:20
The Rose Tattoo: ‘There will be women in the audience cringing that these things are even talked about’An inspired new production of The Rose Tattoo moves the setting of Tennessee Williams’s play from Italian America to an Irish halting siteWed May 03 2023 - 05:15
Hamilton: ticket sales for Dublin shows break records as eager fans queue to secure seatsBord Gáis Energy Theatre will host award-winning musical for a nine-week run in 2024Fri Apr 28 2023 - 12:09
Neglected reputations: The forgotten Yeats sisters, Lily and ElizabethSomewhat overshadowed by brothers WB and Jack, the sisters were a key part of the Celtic Revival and powerhouses behind Dun Emer and Cuala, creative outlets for female writers and artistsSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
