Tom Hickey obituary: An actor with a vocation for his craft
‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’
Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
President leads tributes to late playwright and poet Tom MacIntyre, 87
Authors, actors and critics remember the Cavan writer best known for The Great Hunger
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way
Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea
Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
The highs and lows of Eugene Downes in Kilkenny
He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected
A back-to-basics opera experience in the best possible way
The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients
The magic of Monteverdi and what he means to us
Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan
Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
The Marriage of Figaro review: setting high standards for Irish opera
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
'The Marriage of Figaro' and the redemptive power of love
Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production
Irish National Opera’s debut show: the best classical and opera this week
Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music
Peter Whelan: a man of many parts
Whelan has moved from wind section to the podium as artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra
Irish National Opera launches with a Big Bang!
A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera
More bang for your bucks: This week’s classical and opera highlights
Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO
Irish National Opera appoints Fergus Sheil as artistic director
Company’s first production, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, to be directed by Patrick Mason
Peadar Lamb ‘gave so much to the country and its people’ – funeral Mass told
Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87
Irish opera picking up international awards as Arts Council decision imminent
Smart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplier
Signatories review: an imagined truth about key figures in the Rising
Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry
Signatories: eight major Irish writers, seven Rising heroes
‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1987 – Pentecost, by Stewart Parker
The playwright’s ambition was to create a theatre that was serious in its reflections on Northern Ireland’s political crisis, while being exuberantly theatrical
Irish writers commemorate Proclamation signatories
Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol
Culture Shock: Wilde about Shaw, Shaw Gone Wilde
Wilde and Shaw, who have similar plays on at the Gate and Abbey, had a prickly relationship
The Importance of Being Earnest review: Wilde wins again
As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service
A thrillingly intimate 30 minutes with Andrew Scott
He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work
Gifted actor of RTÉ soaps and notable stage productions
Daphne Carroll: November 15th, 1923 - February 8th, 2015
Review: The Mariner
Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor
Review: Aristocrats
How does Brian Friel’s 1979 play about a Troubles-era dysfunctional family hold up?
Warm celebration at IMMA of life of artist Patrick Scott
‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’
Your stories of relatives who fought in the Rising
Huge response from readers about family members histories
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
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
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