Samuel Beckett

The charismatic poet whose intimacy and boldness continues to inspire was born 95 years ago

The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in both her work and personal life

The actor had the forethought to record Krapp’s early tapes 12 years ago. What a pleasure to see, and hear, the result in the intimacy of Project Arts Centre

Stephen Rea is about to join an illustrious line-up that includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Patrick Magee

Stephen Rea brings Krapp back home, Hamilton comes to Dublin and Irish National Opera stages Salome

Himself and yer man, from Cork to Dublin

Thinking Anew: Christian waiting and looking forward is never just a passive thing

Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett hope to nurture creativity in the same way their acclaimed interpretations of the playwright’s work were supported

The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece

Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings

In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce

Big Picture Festival of Press Photography this month is being organised by the Press Photographers Association of Ireland

If he were alive today there’s little doubt rugby fan Samuel Beckett would have been keenly interested in Ireland’s World Cup progress

The Irish actor was capable of threat and pathos, with the ability to boom and to shrink into his large frame

Dublin-born performer made his stage debut at the capital’s Gate Theatre in 1962

Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage

Legacy of French writer and dramatist Antonin Artaud who was detained in Milltown, Donnybrook and Mountjoy is focus of Ranelagh Arts

An Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis Besserie

Theatre: As Winnie, the actor makes the location and circumstance of Happy Days seem normal, although sorrow keeps breaking in

The best music, comedy, art and more coming your way this week

A new book explores Dublin’s literary past, an active part of living or working in the city

Maylis Besserie’s novel on writer’s final weeks would benefit from more daring decisions

An Irishwoman’s Diary

An Irishman’s Diary

Sales mark centenary of the 1922 World Congress of the Irish Race

Unthinkable: Philosopher Noga Arikha seeks to make sense of dementia

Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere

Building now being used as temporary accommodation for Ukrainian refugees

Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel

An Irishman’s Diary

An Irishman’s Diary

The acclaimed screenwriter is at the frontier of interactive entertainment

Vessels are outside Irish territorial waters, therefore acting in line with maritime law

Village People singing In the Navy would scare off the Russians more than we can

We can change the sense of being trapped inside a familiar story by responding to what we already know

An Irishman’s Diary

Some words of wisdom – and some not so wise – from the world of sport

December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland

Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge

A larg yellow bird's vaccination has been caught up in the culture wars – it’s mad, Ted