Siobhán McKenna

‘A spiritual homecoming’: Micheál MacLiammóir returns to his Galway theatre

The Gate founder was also first artistic director of An Taibhdhearc, the national Irish-language theatre. A new play brings him on a ‘dreamlike journey’

‘Filth’ at the Abbey – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Siobhán McKenna and Archbishop McQuaid

Former Olympian’s Dalkey home with Victorian values for €3m

Donnacha O’Dea’s Albert House is a two-storey five-bed with beautiful sea views

‘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

Directing Ruth Negga as Hamlet: ‘Theatre either puts you to sleep or wakes you up’

South Africa’s Yaël Farber, who cast Ruth Negga, is accustomed to fresh perspectives

State urged to buy 4,000 acres of Luggala estate for public use

Mountaineering Ireland makes call ahead of scattering of Garech de Brún’s ashes at the site

‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom Murphy

The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work

President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to playwright Tom Murphy

Award-winning writer from Galway has died at age 83

The year that was: 1986 at home and abroad

Hurricane Charlie, Knock airport, Chernobyl and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’

‘It’s a bit like country music, an ignored part of hidden Ireland’

Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it

Passionate actor whose work conveyed ‘total belief’

Gabrielle Reidy: July 23rd, 1960 - October 13th, 2014

Druid Theatre to stage new Tom Murphy work

Rehearsals for two Murphy plays begin in Galway

Sadly, there’s no such thing as total recall

Memory is unreliable, but the theatre relies on that

Irish theatre a delicate balancing act for Taibhdhearc’s new artistic director

As she takes the helm of the national theatre for the first language, Anne McCabe aims to preserve our heritage while being modern and inclusive