Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers: Extraordinary insights into so-called ordinary lives
Chambers writes with honesty about human experience and the redemptive power of love
Bella Mackie: ‘I used to have a game with my family where we would talk about the perfect way to murder someone’
Author discusses her new novel, What a Way to Go, her interest in true crime and how she copes with anxiety
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak: A tribute to the power of language
This novel moves between continents, centuries, cultures and communities with intelligence and ease
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker: a thriller, romance and crime novel that is plenty of book for everyone
This long book has a narrative that zips along in pacey, filmic beats, flowing seamlessly between genres
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel: Remakes emigration and its impact on relationships in an invigorating shape
The novel sets out to dismantle the gender binary while also dissecting it, all the time riffing with energy and insight on nostalgia
James Shapiro: Theatre and democracy are mutually supportive – when one is in danger, both are in danger
In the theatre and in politics ideas are debated, says the US author, and when one is threatened, so is the other
Ravelling by Estelle Birdy: an immersive, imaginative debut
Wrapped inside slagging and hectic lives of a group of Dublin teenagers are moments of tenderness and understanding
‘I thought we could have fun by turning one of the landmark images on its head, filling it with women’
The School of Hibernia, an Irish, all-woman reimagining of Raphael’s School of Athens, showcases achievement, solidarity and perseverance
First Look: Inside the new Book of Kells Experience at Trinity College Dublin
More than a million people travel from around the world to see the medieval manuscript each year. The university hopes its new exhibition will spark fresh curiosity at home too
Gordon Snell on his wife, Maeve Binchy: ‘We rejoiced in each other’s successes. Neither of us felt at all jealous’
The two writers were perfectly suited to one another, as they quickly discovered after meeting. Snell will always appreciate his good fortune
Not just the Book of Kells: Trinity College Dublin opens online access to 60 medieval manuscripts
Trinity’s move means everyone can explore an incredible array of skill and artistry, with tantalising glimpses into the past
Fionn Foley on adapting Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment: ‘I did what no person would ever advise you to do’
The writer took a gamble when he went ahead with neither a commission nor interest from a theatre. Now it’s the Ark’s Christmas production
Terry Hayes: ‘In Hollywood meetings, the dumbest idea tends to get the most currency because everybody can understand it’
The outspoken writer on his new spy novel, Cillian Murphy’s X factor and his thoughts on a sequel to I Am Pilgrim
‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan
The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland