A Girl from Mogadishu: Ifrah Ahmed is very impressive. This film about her life is not
Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Pat Kinevane: On My Culture Radar
Actor on his favourite New Zealand city, his appreciation of Niall Buggy and dancing at ‘Dreamgirls’
Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly
The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture
Sebastian Barry’s prison drama plays to captive audience at Mountjoy
Fishamble stages ‘On Blueberry Hill’ in ‘mansion by the Royal Canal’
Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect
And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival
Tributes paid to ‘great actor and fearless advocate’ Anita Reeves
Hundreds gather at Mansion House on Saturday morning for humanist ceremony
Cultural greats honour Edna O’Brien’s life and writing
Gathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’Leary
Review – You Never Can Tell: Excuses are hard to make for Shaw’s problematic play
The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun
Who wins when artists stage a cultural boycott?
600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?
Do you know the way to Galway International?
The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere
Galway’s festival of pictures, pop, opera and soundscapes
Broad in scope and well presented, the exhibitions of Galway International Arts Festival reward visitors of all stripes
Fear and loathing in Buncrana
Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland
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