Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’

The actor talks about observing and to being observed, child acting and his role in Enda Walsh’s new play

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

Brian and Domhnall Gleeson recreate family videos while Roddy Doyle, Cait O'Riordan and more pay tribute to Phil Chevron in aid of St Francis Hospice

Painting of the late Barrie Cooke is selected from shortlist of 12 works

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January

The beauty of the biennial Drop Everything is its location on an Aran Island that hums with possibility

John Butler's film follows a party of young men as they behave badly on a stag weekend - and that's where the comparisons end

It’s being billed as Ireland’s answer to The Hangover and it gives Andrew Scott the chance to exercise his comic chops after his turn as everyone’s favourite baddie in BBC’s smash hit Sherlock

The Winners

Louise Holden, lead singer with I Draw Slow, on how Aidan Gillen wasted no time on his day off from filming ‘Game of Thrones’ to play the anti-hero in the band’s latest video, Valentine

Hugh O’Conor’s brilliant childhood performances are seared into our collective memory – and as his grown-up self gets a big-screen outing in new Irish comedy The Stag, he sits down with Donald Clarke to talk early success, turning 40 and everything in between

Ripper Street, Vikings and Penny Dreadful among the big productions of 2013