Tarrac: Irish-language sports movie pulls its weight
Tale of a Kerry naomhóg rowing team shrugs off a layer of cliche and propels us towards the back-breaking denouement
Lorcan Cranitch
Lorcan Cranitch: ‘Irish actors are not rewarded for their international work’
The actor is proud of the work he and his colleagues do, including in Tarrac, his latest film. Irish actors deserve far more recognition, he says
Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences abound
As a glowering antihero James Nesbitt saves a silly, overbaked series
Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for ‘virtual’ awards
Jessie Buckley and Niamh Algar among nominees for Irish Film and TV Awards
Blood in the Dirt review: Rory Gleeson breathes life into an Irish-Canadian folk tale
Lorcan Cranitch gives a robust performance in a timely commentary on the rights of possession and the balance of power
Rory Gleeson’s Blood in the Dirt: The curse of a family bloodline
Is the novelist and screenwriter turned playwright fated to follow in his family’s footsteps?
The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of history
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay
The Dig: A classic western movie set on an Irish bog
Review: An impressive oddity with Moe Dunford and Lorcan Cranitch that deserves renown
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlights
Pat Shortt stars in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy; Roddy Doyle’s barfly banter gets a human face with Liam Carney and Phillip Judge
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
‘On Raftery’s Hill’ review: a striking and pummelling production
Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare
The best theatre shows to catch this week
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
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