‘Beacon for change’: The Gate Theatre announces new leadership team
Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director
Meet the artist who is ‘just itching to make more silk scarves’
Artist Niall Sweeney’s colourful and surreal exhibition, I Am The Cosmos, comprises eight prints and two silk scarves
Gate Theatre founders’ Ranelagh home for €1.75m on elegant Victorian square
Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards once lived in this spacious, bright house
Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’
The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Smoke break: James Fox cigar boss retires after 46 years
David McGrane recalls his colourful career at the Grafton Street institution
First look: Bewley’s on Grafton Street reopens after €12m renovation
The buns are back, but the big mugs of milky coffee are gone
'Once you step over the threshold, you enter Gatsby’s mansion'
Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door
Gate Theatre needs to take risks – and so does its audience
Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure
‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’
In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future
The Meath Gaeilgeoirs who couldn't get on and the commuters who love their drives
Newstalk’s absorbing documentary recounts the rivalry of ‘planters’ from Connemara
Artistic director Michael Colgan exits stage Gate after 33 years
Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle
Michael Colgan steps down after 33 years at the Gate Theatre
Artistic director will hand over to successor – the fourth in theatre’s history – within a year
Film actor who came home to Sligo to set up an oyster farm
Noelle Middleton: December 18th, 1926 - January 30th, 2016
City centre revamp retains its safe house trapdoor
This house has had top-to-toe treatment since January – when it was bought for €825,000 – being transformed from seven bedsits to a home of tall elegance
Orson Welles: Man, myth and ‘Magic’
‘He wasn’t really difficult,’ says Chuck Workman, director of a compelling new documentary about one of cinema’s giants
Miriam Lord: How about a few awards to lighten the campaign mood?
The marriage referendum created some new heroines as clowns played on
Opening the Gate: is Irish theatre still talking to itself?
The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference at the Gate heard illuminating talks about Edwards and Mac Liammóir, Beckett and Friel
McAleese wrong to call for Yes vote, says journalist
Discrimination and alienation suffered by LGBT developed ‘largely by invention’
The Times We Lived In: Luvvie, you shouldn’t have
Published: February 21st, 1975. Photograph: Jimmy McCormack
Versatile actor whose career spanned almost 60 years
Kevin O’Connor: April 25th, 1930 - May 24th, 2014
Creative haven inside the canal for €1.7m
Boasting such artistic luminaries as Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir among its former residents, Dublin’s Harcourt Terrace has been a magnet for creative types for more than a hundred years. Now number 9 is for auction by its auctioneer owner
Scott of the aesthetic: 70 years of golden art
Painter, printmaker, architect, designer: Patrick Scott, who has died at the age of 93, made an inestimable contribution to Irish cultural life
The Ireland of Orson Welles was inhabited by mean men and wanton women
America Letter: The film director’s views on the Irish form part of a new book
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