‘The word fascist is perfectly accurate when applied to Donald Trump’The writer Masha Gessen sees parallels between the US and Russia under PutinWed Jun 24 2020 - 05:00
Art events and artists are facing a brutal Covid-19 realityThe recovery of the sector may take until 2025 if nothing is done to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19Sat Jun 20 2020 - 05:00
Arts ‘need €30m survival fund’ as sector set to shrink by 35% and knock €250m off GDPExpert advisory group urges Government to act immediately to avoid slow, four-year recoveryFri Jun 19 2020 - 11:48
Dublin Theatre Festival announces ‘reimagined’ plans for SeptemberWexford Opera Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival also announce alternative eventsFri Jun 19 2020 - 09:30
Why George Floyd’s violent death has moved young Irish peopleIssues around race and social justice are increasingly important in Ireland tooSat Jun 06 2020 - 05:00
Government must take action to prevent total wipeout of arts and cultureAs the country reopens, cultural events will be last to come back – if they come back at allSat May 30 2020 - 05:00
To work on TV, Normal People had to differ from the bookInevitably and rightly, the TV series is softer in tone than Sally Rooney’s novelSun May 24 2020 - 11:28
Late-20th century male authors and the way they might look at youA story about Philip Roth leering at ‘colleens’ in Dublin exposes a Neanderthal attitudeSat May 16 2020 - 07:00
Electric Picnic 2020 falls victim to coronavirus pandemicRefunds now available but ticket holders advised they can be retained for use in 2021Mon May 11 2020 - 18:55
Computer love: Kraftwerk’s motorik beat was powered by a human heartFlorian Schneider’s death is a reminder of how influential – and emotional – their music wasSat May 09 2020 - 05:00
Normal People reminds us that young adults have lost the most during lockdownThe Abbey’s Dear Ireland shows how artists can bring a valuable insight to current eventsSat May 02 2020 - 05:00
Aimlessly walking within 2km of home, am I now a flâneur?The French term for an urban wanderer has new relevance under Covid-19 restrictionsTue Apr 28 2020 - 12:50
The former prince of the Nazi regime, who still defends his fatherPhilippe Sands tells the tale of a leading Nazi whose son denies his father’s criminalitySun Apr 26 2020 - 07:00
Edna O’Brien and Brendan Gleeson sign up for Abbey’s Dear Ireland projectTheatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this monthWed Apr 15 2020 - 11:00
Arts Council’s role is now to provide income continuance and business survivalThe Covid-19 crisis has put millions of independent artists and small companies around the world under existential threatSat Apr 11 2020 - 05:00
The biggest broadcasters are home YouTubers nowIsolation has opened our eyes to how easy it now is to communicate in sound and vision with distant workmates, family and friendsSat Apr 04 2020 - 07:00
Bravo! The winners of the 23rd Irish Times Irish Theatre AwardsCelebrating drama in a crisis: awards reflect remarkable work produced by Irish theatre and opera companiesSat Apr 04 2020 - 05:00
Cultural landscape on the other side of the pandemic will be very differentSo many festivals and gigs have been cancelled, while the future for theatres, music venues, galleries and cinemas is uncertainSat Mar 28 2020 - 07:00
Coronavirus: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards ceremony cancelledIrish Times managing director expresses hope event might be held at later dateTue Mar 24 2020 - 05:00
Cultural endeavour mutates to survive this weird new worldCoronavirus will profoundly damage the arts but new creative spaces will also openSat Mar 21 2020 - 05:00
Architecture must be built in as more than an outhouse of cultureIrish triumph in Pritzker prize should draw attention to a neglected, crucial artformSat Mar 07 2020 - 07:00
‘Aging, comfortable and stuck’: what happens culture when society gets old?The hollowing out of the youth-oriented music industry is a harbinger of things to comeSat Feb 29 2020 - 07:00
Artists understand the desire for political change better than mostThe key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems facing artistsSat Feb 22 2020 - 07:00
Anne Enright: ‘As a writer, your problems are your solutions’Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian DublinSat Feb 08 2020 - 06:15
How Europe's other Capital of Culture became an art-fascist stateA century ago, Rijeka was taken over by a poet who declared himself dictatorSat Jan 18 2020 - 15:34
Why did Irish Water splash out €800k on a TV documentary?With its eye-watering budget, The Story of Water takes ‘native content’ to a new levelSat Jan 11 2020 - 07:00
Marian Finucane: A pioneering voice in Irish broadcastingWith a career spanning almost five decades, the radio presenter was at the vanguard of media and social changeFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:36
An Appreciation: Fiachra Ó MarcaighPioneering journalist in new technology who was immersed in the Irish languageSun Dec 15 2019 - 19:00
Clint Eastwood’s film tells a lie, but shows us the true ClintIn the film, a real-life female journalist sleeps with a source. There’s no evidence it happenedSat Dec 14 2019 - 08:00
TV reviewers the world over owe debt to Clive JamesAustralian critic created template which has allowed writers freedom to shine ever sinceSat Nov 30 2019 - 08:00
Ardmore expansion raises questions about future directionThe Wicklow studio has avoided fading to black, thanks to new opportunities in international TV-makingSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
The perfect office worker’s capacity for evilThis book seeks to reflect on the modern phenomenon of impersonal, bureaucratic murder.Sat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
House of The Dead: What to do with Joyce’s literary landmark?If the core and front of the house are safe, does it matter what else gets built around it?Sat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
What’s the argument for public service broadcasting, and why isn’t it winning?The worst culprits in this whole sorry affair are undoubtedly the current GovernmentFri Nov 08 2019 - 13:56
Gay Byrne cast a long shadow over Irish broadcasting‘Gay found the pulse of his country and kept his finger firmly placed there’Mon Nov 04 2019 - 15:36
The way we listen to music and words has changed, changed utterlyIndividually tailored streaming means we are now all living in our own bubble of soundSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Things are grim at RTÉ, and they’re going to get grimmerArt sale and Lyric rumours distract from the savage changes needed at State broadcasterSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
Why Leo Varadkar fails the rule of 72 maths testThree years after vowing to double Arts spending by 2024, the Government is already a year behindFri Oct 11 2019 - 14:00
Hugh Linehan: ‘I wouldn’t go back to Communicorp even if they’d have me’Radio bans of Irish Times and The Currency journalists show something is deeply amissSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’The author argues for a radical, anti-capitalist green new deal solution to climate challengeSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?Historical and popular culture landmarks offer valuable opportunities to reflect on eventsSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Why do we keep asking artists what they think of Brexit?The notion of ‘culture’ has been complicated and diluted by its co-option for so many usesSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
Netflix is a huge disappointment in the ‘Golden Age of TV’I naively thought Netflix would mean the world’s best films and TV at your fingertipsSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Maureen Dowd: ‘Trump is the media’s villain and we are his’Pulitzer prize-winning columnist on turmoil in Washington and thriving journalismSat Aug 24 2019 - 06:00
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is a narcissistic monster and a truly great Irish creationThe SoCoDu rugby-loving idiot savant does not translate internationally. That’s a good thingSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
What will public service media look like in five years’ time?Government must face new realities when replacing TV licence with broadcasting chargeSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Anarchy in the UK: Brexit, Billy Bragg and punk rockThe protest singer tells the Irish Times politics podcast punk was about solidarity, not Brexit-style masochsimFri Aug 02 2019 - 10:20
Does the auteur theory hold in the era of big television?The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sportSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Extreme politics stoking the fire of the culture warsNewly emboldened social conservative in age of Trump seek to roll back recent changeSat Jun 29 2019 - 07:00
Inside the Trump presidency: A mad king roams empty hallsFire and Fury author Michael Wolff goes back inside the White House in his new bookSat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00