‘Beacon for change’: The Gate Theatre announces new leadership team

Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director

Written in clear-eyed anger: Harold Pinter’s anti-war poems

Slaughter in Ukraine sent me back to poems Pinter wrote about US-led invasion of Iraq

A riot, champagne and Charlie Haughey: Garret FitzGerald’s eve of VE Day diary

“At 9.19 on way back to College, at bottom Grafton St, we met Charlie Haughey”

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’

Dame Ninette De Valois, the Wicklow woman who brought ballet to Britain

Extraordinary Emigrants: De Valois founded the company that became the Royal Ballet

Fintan O’Toole: If theatre is not a safe space, what is left?

A case taken by an actress against a Trinity student in 1747 gives the lie to the notion that there was a time when sexual harrassment in the workplace was okay

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

Last of a famous Dublin theatrical costumier family

Peadar Bourke: September 14th, 1926 - April 10th, 2015

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Miriam Lord: How about a few awards to lighten the campaign mood?

The marriage referendum created some new heroines as clowns played on

Essaouira, Morocco

Formidable and flamboyant dressmaker and socialite

Mai Geldof: May 20th, 1909 - January 2nd, 2015

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

Irish theatre a delicate balancing act for Taibhdhearc’s new artistic director

As she takes the helm of the national theatre for the first language, Anne McCabe aims to preserve our heritage while being modern and inclusive

Background: Rupture of ‘Georgian Mile’ prompted widespread opposition

Replacement buildings ruined Fitzwilliam Street facade