Noël Coward

Dylan Moran: ‘Smoking or breathing, one of them had to go’

Comedian on the ‘cult’ of Catholicism, his love of poetry and giving up fags and booze

Monica de Wichfeld: Chanel designer, gun-runner and rebel to the end

Extraordinary Emigrants: Fermanagh woman gathered intelligence on the Nazis for Britain

Finding the Headspace to celebrate brain health and dementia

Symposium in Trinity will look to discuss creative ways of treating illness

A warm conspiracy of disapproval: the table of six, the waitress and me

London Letter: Unfortunately, we ensured anguish was on the menu that day

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

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

Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate

John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate

How damaged is Kevin Spacey after response to abuse allegations?

Suspicions raised that actor timed his coming out as gay to deflect attention from claims

Entertainer and comedian whose success spanned multiple generations

Bruce Forsyth obituary: born February 22nd, 1928; died August 18th, 2017

Veteran actor best known for ‘Last of the Summer Wine’

Obituary: Peter Sallis. Born February 1st 1921; died June 2nd, 2017

New exhibition paints a picture of British queer life

London Letter: Tate Britain’s landmark show tells a story of courage, shame and sex

John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

Wolfgang Rihm can chat and compose at the same time

The German composer is a master of quite contradictory styles and his output runs to more than 400 works

Three steps to making employee motivation work

Engagement is key to employee happiness, says a workplace psychology expert

Letters after her name – An Irishman’s Diary about the strange fame of Helene Hanff

Acclaimed British actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69

Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer

Letter from Shanghai: City’s Jewish heritage blends glamour and compassion

Role of Chinese financial hub as a safe haven for Jews is being recognised

Remembering the artist Derek Hill

Englishman was granted honorary Irish citizenship by President Mary McAleese

I’m playing British characters on stage but I’ll always be Irish

Q&A with Irish actor Rory Fleck Byrne: ‘It took going abroad for me to realise how much Ireland has contributed to the world of theatre and film’

Third Person review: a cinema crash waiting to happen

Beautiful people have all the frickin’ problems in Paul Haggis glossy but superficial drama

The Skeleton Twins review: Making no bones about the schmaltz

Pride and the pits: when gay rights met the striking miners

New movie Pride celebrates the unlikely meeting of Britain’s striking miners and gay rights campaigners in the 1980s. Poverty, homophobia, Aids and the defeat of the miners provide an unlikely backdrop. Donald Clarke takes pride in a cultural rebellion

Film-maker Richard Attenborough dies aged 90

Oscar-winner directed ‘Gandhi’, ‘Cry Freedom’ and ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’

Richard Attenborough was a gifted actor and director, but so much more than that

Kindly-old-uncle façade hid inner steel and prodigious gift for the macabre

Versatile performer of considerable range and talent

Dora Bryan: February 7th, 1923 - July 23rd, 2014

Benny & Jolene

Brendan’s tragic voyage: Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York

Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book

Review: The Vortex

Noël Coward’s breakthrough play depicts a downward spiral, but Annabelle Comyn’s brave production feels like progress

Actor of incomparable charisma Peter O’Toole dies aged 81

Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ brought new style of theatrical weight to cinema

‘I like feeling out of my depth’: how Jessie Buckley went from Kerry to the West End

Killarney’s Jessie Buckley is to share a stage with Jude Law in a West End production of ‘Henry V’. The experience has been terrifying and ‘completely liberating’

CS Clancy Centenary Ride: A headspinning vista of skyscrapers in Hong Kong, and a heady mix of jazz music in Shanghai

Clancy’s plan to ride to Shanghai was thwarted by the absence of roads

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