Maloney’s Dream review: Rising chaos that children will loveA bilingual show for children aged eight and over brings to life the events of Easter week with clarity and humourThu Apr 28 2016 - 10:57
Towers and Tales and Storyseed: a national book-gifting initativeBook-gifting encourages parents to read to and with their children, and affords children the opportunity to have books in their home, regardless of socio-economic backgroundThu Apr 21 2016 - 15:34
Ebook reviews: Blackbar and Dictionary StoriesCensorship and the dictionary are the inspirations for interactive text-based gamesSat Apr 02 2016 - 00:33
Theatre of war: the plays putting the Rising rebels back on the streetsTwo site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productionsThu Mar 24 2016 - 06:00
Roddy Doyle does Mozart: ‘I’m a recent convert to opera’The author has transported ‘Don Giovanni’ to Dublin for the Opera Theatre CompanySat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Bringing theatre alive for children with disabilitiesBelfast theatre group has devised new ways of opening access for excluded kidsTue Mar 08 2016 - 01:00
Ebooks: The thrills and limitations of digital’s distinctive qualitiesA new e-publishing company does not see material and digital forms as being in competition with each other but as two distinct, if complementary, ways of readingSat Mar 05 2016 - 00:35
Deirdre Kinahan: ‘The Rising is not just a Dublin story’The playwright’s new production Wild Sky eschews the grand Dublin narrative for a rural perspective on 1916Tue Feb 09 2016 - 06:00
Ebook reviews: Discovering new worlds with #womenintranslationAnother year, another new year’s resolution, but it’s no sacrifice to keep this oneSat Feb 06 2016 - 00:44
Ten things we learned at the Theatre of Change SymposiumTackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the AbbeySat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
East of Berlin review: A gripping look at the generational effects of evilHannah Moscovitch’s play tells the story of the son of a former SS doctor who is forced to come to terms with the nature of his father’s crimesTue Jan 12 2016 - 22:45
Ebook reviews: Four ways to zoom in on the dense weave of Wagner’s lifeReviews: The Wagner Files; Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg; The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and BabbageSun Jan 10 2016 - 01:15
Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch joins the Waking the Feminists debateHannah Moscovitch, whose play East of Berlin examines the Holocaust’s legacy and is coming to Dublin, is not against gender quotasMon Jan 04 2016 - 06:00
Kid's Christmas: Tracks in the Snow at the ArkThe Henry Girls’ concert for children has – refreshingly – barely a mention of ChristmasThu Dec 17 2015 - 05:46
Kid's Christmas: Aladdin at the Lambert Puppet TheatreA great first outing to the theatre for children who might be overwhelmed by larger pantomimesThu Dec 17 2015 - 05:45
Kid's Christmas: Little Light at Civic TheatreMonkeyshine Theatre draws inspiration from Nordic mythologyThu Dec 17 2015 - 05:45
Kid's Christmas: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf review at the GaietyGreat fun for all agesThu Dec 17 2015 - 05:45
Christmas books for children: Sara Keating’s family favouritesIn December, I read nothing but winter- and Christmas-themed books with my children, which I take down from the attic on December 1st. Here are some of my favouritesTue Dec 15 2015 - 11:32
Mary Poppins review: this spoonful of sugar goes down brilliantlyRather than staying close to Disney's 1964 musical, Julian Fellowes' adaptation goes back to PL Travers' books. The result is a Mary Poppins even the author would loveThu Dec 10 2015 - 06:30
Ebooks: From self-help for cancer sufferers to the magic of realityNew titles from Sophie Sabbage, Chris Kyle, Jim Dwyer and Richard DawkinsSat Dec 05 2015 - 00:52
Fired from the canon: the fate of Irish female playwrightsThere is a long list of women who wrote important plays for Irish stages but whose works have all but disappeared. They deserve a renaissanceWed Dec 02 2015 - 06:00
Changing the world, one tweet at a timeSocial media enables activists to reach audiences as never before, as the #WakingTheFeminists campaign knows. It’s all part of telling women’s storiesSat Nov 28 2015 - 04:00
Me Too! review: An artfully told tale of boyhood friendshipThe play uses a physical language to communicate with a young audienceTue Nov 17 2015 - 17:59
Abbey Theatre urged to play role in seeking equality in artsWaking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artistsThu Nov 12 2015 - 17:41
Beyond the Abbey: the trouble for women in theatreThe National Theatre’s maddeningly male 1916 centenary season highlights the difficulties that face women who work in Irish theatreSat Nov 07 2015 - 05:00
Ebooks: The self-publishing route to a more traditional relationshipNew titles from Rachel Abbott, Angela Currie, Fat Roland and Thijs de Boer reviewedSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:00
Abbey director ‘regrets exclusions’ in programmeFiach Mac Conghail says reaction sparked ‘a professional and personal crisis’Fri Nov 06 2015 - 13:47
Bringing real world issues to young adult novelsPatrick Ness fell into writing young adult fiction by accident, but he’s had huge success in a genre that’s barely a decade oldThu Nov 05 2015 - 01:00
Drama in the classroom is a primary concernDrama in education aims to give students the tools to express themselves and imagine alternative worlds, but formal exposure to it stops after primary levelMon Nov 02 2015 - 11:00
PJ Lynch and the man who fell to waterIllustrator PJ Lynch was never interested in writing – until he stumbled across the story of a servant who fell from the Mayflower and survivedMon Nov 02 2015 - 06:00
Reading to babies: a beginner’s guideSara Keating runs the baby Book Club in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown libraries. Here she offers advice on how to pass on to children a love of readingTue Oct 27 2015 - 15:39
From page to stage: a picture-book introduction to live theatreSeveral theatrical adaptations of children’s classic books are touring the country, reports Sara KeatingMon Oct 26 2015 - 15:27
Review | The Wolf and Peter: A super cool wolf lends some edge to the magicCoiscéim’s new dance show takes Prokofiev’s classic into more modern territory with thrilling resultsWed Oct 21 2015 - 14:02
Read it and weep: how teenagers relate to the books written for themYoung adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fictionTue Oct 20 2015 - 11:00
Culture Shock: Children’s theatre is far from child’s play – so why overlook it?‘Bees!’ and the rest of the Ark’s family season matched the quality of anything else at Dublin Theatre Festival this year, yet the media largely ignored themFri Oct 16 2015 - 16:00
DTF review | The buzz of ‘Bees!’ doesn’t obstruct its messageThe music might be a bit too hip for the hive of children, but their parents might appreciate itWed Sept 30 2015 - 13:36
DTF review | Bailed Out! is less a piece of theatre than an act of civic dutyColin Murphy does a terrific job in using documentary material to maximum dramatic effectMon Sept 28 2015 - 14:15
Conor McPherson: ‘Plays are stupid. You are supposed to feel them in your bones’Conor McPherson’s talent as a playwright was precocious, but writing for a living was never part of the master planTue Sept 22 2015 - 06:00
Reviews: Arcadia by Iain Pears and Caroline Smaile’s 99 Reasons WhyMultiple choice reading for the digital generation: ebooks that facilitate structural experimentationSat Sept 12 2015 - 01:00
Happy Days on bleak sets and Beckett gets schooledEnniskillen – home of the Beckett festival – offers settings that match the desolate emotional atmosphere of his workThu Jul 30 2015 - 06:30
Ebooks: Short fiction treats that are perfect for travellingRound-up: Digital publishers have been quick to spot the potential in brief reads that help shorten journeysSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
Amy Conroy: ‘I didn’t know how to be the girl I was supposed to be’Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about familiesMon Jul 13 2015 - 01:00
Eight exciting cultural outings for childrenFew children love trudging around art galleries or museums but there are ways to turn culture into an adventure. Here are some tips about what makes a family-friendly trip, plus eight great places to visitMon Jul 06 2015 - 03:00
Ebooks: Joyce and ‘Ulysses’ as you’ve never experienced them beforeThe digital world dovetails well with James Joyce’s imagination in some inventive appsSat Jun 20 2015 - 01:08
WB Yeats and ‘The Irish Times’The poet had a close relationship with this publication throughout his careerWed Jun 10 2015 - 01:00
Ebooks: Alice in Wonderland gets mixed digital treatmentRevisions of Lewis Carroll’s novel offer visual enhancements and a Manhattan settingSat May 23 2015 - 01:24
Little Coalition support for vote on presidencyAt least 11 Fine Gael and Labour TDs say they are voting No; others unsureFri May 22 2015 - 01:00
How to hook students with digital baitA digital literacy ‘short course’, one of a range being developed for junior cycle, excites the students and links with their other subjectsWed May 20 2015 - 06:00
The unputdownable spirit of the local bookshopIndependent sellers such as Books Upstairs, Raven Books and Kenny’s have proved to be remarkably resilient in hard times, kept afloat by flexibility and the personal touchTue Apr 28 2015 - 01:00
