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Seán O’Casey
Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’
Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir
Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival
Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act without Words I
The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
The Guide: Cúirt, Samara Joy, Take That and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
April 20th-April 26th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
In Dublin, there was always, amid dark days, music being made and sung
The city has its troubles, but it also has a cultural robustness that took the edge off some of the difficulties
Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey
Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July
Agnes O’Casey: ‘It’s just been so easy to hate women, no matter the period. And that is terrifying’
The great-granddaughter of the playwright Seán O’Casey is doing the family name proud, starring in two new films, Lies We Tell and The Miracle Club
The Guide: August 26th-September 1st, 2023 – Events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can be proud of itself only if it can confront its shameful deeds
Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride
DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Archive covers more than 100 years of the Irish language movement
Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway
Passenger locator – Frank McNally on a century of poputchiks, Mitläufers, and fellow travellers
An Irishman’s Diary
It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a star
Television: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley Road
Council purchase of Seán O’Casey’s last Dublin home stalls
Dispute among owners understood to have halted sale of playwright’s house to city council
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Turbulent Priest – Frank McNally on John Ball, the Peasants’ Revolt, and the last of the English Villains
An Irishman’s Diary
A Window on the Switzers – Frank McNally’s further reflections on a remarkable Irish-American
An Irishman’s Diary
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Restaurateur Peter White’s lifetime collection sale to include notable artworks
Sale of some 350 lots includes paintings, bronzes, prints, antique furniture, china and silver
Seán O’Casey’s last Dublin home bought by city council to house homeless
Councillors to propose that playwright’s house be used as a cultural centre
Study of Coombe hospital over 60 years shows progress of Irish maternity care
Nine-fold decrease in chance of a baby dying during pregnancy since 1960s
Sabina Higgins leads charge for arts centre at Sean O’Casey house
Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation
Seán O’Casey’s house to be bought by Dublin City Council
Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation
Plan to buy Seán O’Casey house for homeless shelved due to funding issues
Council ‘not overly confident’ money to buy property could be secured due to Covid-19
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
O’Casey In The Estate spins a powerfully human story
RTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedom
Fintan O'Toole: Crisis management is what the State does best
Immense task of reconstruction will demand much more than frantic improvisation
Beyond Netflix: where to find Golden Age classic movies
Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema
JP McMahon: Irish food was never just one thing
To try and define Irish food for a new generation was my ultimate aim in writing The Irish Cook Book
The forgotten Irishwoman who once ruled the New York fashion industry
Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market
Touring helps Abbey Theatre boost box office receipts by 28%
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
Barry Fitzgerald: the civil servant who became one of Ireland’s first Hollywood stars
‘The Quiet Man’ actor Barry Fitzgerald described as ‘one of the greatest comedians who ever went on stage’
The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage
Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre
The Troubles – a euphemism for bloody conflict
the term had the advantage that it avoided ascribing blame to any of the participants
Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
Was it for this? Fintan O’Toole on the existential questions facing the Abbey Theatre
If the national theatre is not world class or keen on Ireland’s dramatic canon, what is it for?
Think opera is only for cultural snobs? A free crash course might help
INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
Seán O’Casey’s last home to be used to house Dublin’s homeless
Playwright wrote works including ‘The Plough and the Stars’ in the North Circular Road house
Irish Repertory Theatre: casting O’Casey’s shadow over Manhattan
To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy
Restricted access to legal system unacceptable, Higgins says
‘Prohibitive cost’ of legal action biggest barrier to wider access, President says
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied
The Lost O’Casey review: An urgent understanding of contemporary Dublin
Dublin Theatre Festival: Anu’s immersive production sends characters and audience spinning through a disappearing city
Theatre of the week: Misogynistic therapy, and a neglected Sean O’Casey play
Two new productions at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival re-examine old art works
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin
Two theatre shows to catch in Dublin this week
Joxer Daly gets a solo show and promenade plays in the Botanic Gardens
Smart East Wall home for €450k sprung from Dublin’s last housing crisis
Three-bed house in quiet cul-de-sac has been refurbished and extended
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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