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The Bulgarian author on the dangers of nostalgia, his 2023 Booker-winning novel Time Shelter, and Irish writers he admires
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Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Sam Thompson: ‘I really don’t think there is a distinction to be made between writing for adults and writing for children’
Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Gare St Lazare Ireland’s virtuosic, mesmeric ensemble brings texts by Beckett, Dante, Melville and others to life
Walking in Samuel Beckett’s footsteps: In some mysterious way, the landscape captures the soul of the artist
Alan Gilsenan, who leads a walk, Samuel Beckett: Walking After My Father, explains why the Wicklow and Dublin mountains exerted such a pull on the author
Author Charlotte Mendelson: ‘There’s nothing more fascinating than other people’s marriages, particularly when they start to go wrong.’
The author on her ‘darkest, queerest novel yet’, what makes Iris Murdoch special and the words she would abolish
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Francis Bacon’s Nanny: A peek into the darkness of the artist’s childhood
Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Adrian Dunbar on Beckett: ‘I seemed to be getting knocked around emotionally but didn’t know how he was doing it’
For Beckett: Unbound 2024, the actor has teamed up with the composer Nick Roth to stage a festival of the writer’s work in Paris and Liverpool
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Seamus Heaney was born on Thursday, April 13th, 1939. ‘Thursday’s child has far to go.’
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