Clueless coalition is just brave enough to go for all the easy optionsOpinion: If the Government is not following the FitzPatrick plan, what plan is it following?Tue Oct 22 2013 - 00:01
Culture Shock: A daring reinvention of ShakespeareCamille O’Sullivan’s version of ‘The Rape of Lucrece’, for the RSC, creates a wholly new piece of Shakespearean theatreSat Oct 19 2013 - 01:00
It is in Ireland’s interests to stop blocking a tax on financial transactionsOpinion: The financial services lobby is by far the most important and powerful in IrelandTue Oct 15 2013 - 12:02
Culture Shock: Dublin Theatre Festival: Ambitious, extravagant and a little reckless theatreThere’s something magnificently defiant about the scale of the productions of ‘The Critic’ and ‘The Threepenny Opera’Thu Oct 10 2013 - 19:30
Reform is not abstract: misgovernment does real, tangible harm to our citizensOpinion: Three stories from the past week – about Phil Hogan, the HSE and developer Tom McFeely – show the need for actionTue Oct 08 2013 - 12:01
Culture Shock: A fearless plunge into pure performanceOlwen Fouéré’s ‘riverrun’ is a highlight of Dublin Theatre Festival 2013Sat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Say No to Seanad abolition and the Coalition’s reform charadeOpinion: There is no intention to create a single-chamber parliament that will hold the executive to accountTue Oct 01 2013 - 12:02
The Price of Power: Inside Ireland’s Crisis Coalition, by Pat LeahyLeahy exposes the undermining of cabinet government by a Coalition gambling that it can clean up the mess by the next general electionSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
It’s Ireland’s best public theatre, and it needs our supportWith its extraordinary Monto cycle, which includes the searing Laundry and, at this month’s Dublin Fringe Festival, the remarkable Thirteen sequence, Louise Lowe’s Anu Productions has become a kind of alternative national theatre, exploring the legacy of coercive institutionalisation, sexual exploitation, poverty, social collapse and the heroin epidemicSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Writer Mary O’Donoghue wins ‘Legends of the Fall’ short story competition‘The Sweet Forbearance of the Streets’ chosen from more than 300 entries to Irish Times competition for fictional reflections on Ireland after the crashFri Sept 27 2013 - 18:41
Nine failures of the blanket bank guarantee – and its sole ‘success’The benefits we were promised five years ago have proved illusory. The costs have been locked in for decadesTue Sept 24 2013 - 12:01
Culture Shock: Two Samuel Beckett plays in a car park? UnmissableThe cast of Sarah Jane Scaife’s Dublin Fringe Festival productions of ‘Rough for Theatre I’ and ‘Act Without Words II’ are superb. They use the difficulties of the site to stage productions that are even better than Peter Brook’sSat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
If you can’t win the scientific argument, suppress itEvidence on effect of sea lice heavily contestedMon Sept 16 2013 - 16:31
Culture Shock: Lippy’s explosive theatrical experimentBush Moukarzel’s show, a centrepiece of Dublin Fringe Festival, takes the biggest risk imaginable in the closed-in world of modish theatre-making: he adds the explosive element of reality, in the strange and horrible deaths of an aunt and her three adult nieces in Co Kildare in 2000Sat Sept 14 2013 - 01:00
A programme of meaningless Dáil reformGuillotine practices will undermine plansTue Sept 10 2013 - 12:00
American spirit is often best expressed in acts of political defiance of authorityOpinion: Manning may join Thompson, Parks and Luther King in pantheon of heroesTue Aug 27 2013 - 12:01
Culture Shock: George Bernard Shaw’s sympathy for the devilThe writer used his play Major Barbara to try to work out his feelings about poverty and power, capitalism and injustice. He couldn’t stop himself getting tangled up dramatically, but the result at the Abbey Theatre is a richly enjoyable productionSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
It is not ‘self-hatred’ to point out that our Constitution is not being respectedOpinion: McDowell’s criticisms verge on the creepily authoritarianTue Aug 20 2013 - 12:01
Clare’s Flaggy Shore: where nothing is black and whiteOur Going Coastal series continues with a stroll along a part of Co Clare with serious literary credentials, in a landscape that has its own natural poetryMon Aug 19 2013 - 01:00
Breaking the rules on Beckett, to fantastic effectThe playwright would have been deeply unhappy about Pan Pan’s production of Embers – part of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival – but it’s an intense, imaginative, mesmerising experienceSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
Who will be the last to suffer for the mistake of austerity?This faith-based construction of economic ‘reality’ is no less ideologically driven than the Soviet five-year plansTue Aug 13 2013 - 12:01
Culture Shock: Forget Brando – this is the true heart of A Streetcar Named DesireEthan McSweeny’s excellent production of the Tennessee Williams play, at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, recognises that its tragedy lies almost entirely with Stella and BlancheSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
Three cracked pillars of a failed stateFacing up to State’s failure can allow us begin againTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
Nine things you can do in Ireland that almost certainly won’t land you in jailA country that can’t protect its citizens from the effects of wrongdoing is not a RepublicTue Jul 30 2013 - 12:50
Fictions for Our Times (video)Fintan O’Toole introduces Legends of the Fall, a new short story series beginning in the print edition of The Irish Times on SaturdayFri Jul 26 2013 - 16:40
An inquiry is needed into why a regime of impunity still exists in this stateAnglo tapes showed minds untroubled by the slightest hint of criminal consequencesTue Jul 23 2013 - 13:00
Credit unions the only Anglo bondholders the Government has faced downMoney that could not be lent out during boom was moved for safety to banksTue Jul 09 2013 - 13:00
Oireachtas inquiry into banks would not answer questions that need to be answeredLet us not have another charade that only demonstrates our institutional weaknessTue Jul 02 2013 - 12:00
The smartest guys in IrelandThe most unsettling aspect of the Anglo Irish Bank tapes is not the executives’ swearing, greed or arrogance. It’s that we know they were right to assume they could get away with anythingSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
Culture Shock: From Russia with love pieced together in poetryA mosaic in St Petersburg immortalising the relationship between the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the artist Boris Anrep re-creates an image in the most unlikely place: the Cathedral of Christ the King in MullingarSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
Proposed jail sentence for women who have an abortion is self-righteous and hypocriticalDeputies may be voting for law while hoping there is no prospect of its implementationTue Jun 25 2013 - 12:00
Earnest Ibsen could do with a dash of SpielbergThe Gate Theatre’s production of ‘An Enemy of the People’ is fatally cautiousSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
Government’s fine words about reform of governance have faded away to nothingKenny’s proposal to abolish the Seanad is just a populist stuntTue Jun 18 2013 - 12:00
Culture Shock: If acting were as easy as it should look, it wouldn’t be an artThe days when actors were widely seen as little different from pimps and whores are gone. But there is still an ambivalence about accepting them as serious artistsSat Jun 15 2013 - 01:00
Cycling is a good thing, and boy do cyclists know itPedestrians need to be protected from abuses of the law and of common courtesyTue Jun 11 2013 - 12:00
Culture Shock: No ‘Danny Boy’, no rebel songs, just great Irish musicMick Moloney’s brilliant Green Fields of America has been a staging post, proving ground and launch pad for almost everything that has happened in Irish-American traditional music since the 1970sSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
No longer citizens, just customersColumn: as the State is dismantled piece by piece, the idea that we are citizens of a republic is an awkward, business-unfriendly anachronismTue Jun 04 2013 - 12:00
Culture Shock: The first photograph of the casual horror of warLook at A Harvest of Death, on show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you’ll begin to see why the young Irish-American Timothy O’Sullivan was perhaps the single most important photographer of the American Civil WarSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Ireland needs a better economic strategy than ‘come here to avoid tax’Column: A country cannot bet its future on forever facilitating global corporations as they seek to deprive their home governments of incomeTue May 28 2013 - 12:00
Emigration story by far the most important of modern IrelandColumn: We may mark the bicentenary of the Famine knowing we are still living its demographic legacyTue May 21 2013 - 12:00
Free GP care not a priority for austerity sadistsColumn: It is much cheaper for the State to give people, especially those with chronic illnesses, free access to their GPsTue May 14 2013 - 12:00
Trinity’s online Down Survey gives new life to a long-gone IrelandCulture ShockSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Banksterity strategy is built on ignoranceWe have a clear and consistent policy of suppressing dissent and obscuring bleak realitiesTue May 07 2013 - 12:00
