Orla Brady: ‘I felt Ireland was a very repressive place to be a woman’
The actor on new thriller Rose plays Julie, and how her native country has changed for the better since leaving in the 1980s
Oscar Wilde’s wit and ego on display in €50,000 auction sale
According to book, his preferred poets were ‘Euripides, Keats, Theocritus and myself’
Remembering The Diceman: gay icon, national treasure and obstacle on the way to work
Thom McGinty was one in a long line of legendary Dublin street characters, like Zozimus and Bang Bang
Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers
Previous saoithe have included Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Brian Friel, and Doyle believes that Ireland’s composers are up there with our literary greats
Ever heard of Evel Kneviel? Roger Moore’s greatest Bond car moments
Saying farewell to the beloved actor, who died this week aged 89, in the best way possible; by remembering his iconic car chases
‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’
In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future
The cultural quotes of the year: madness, middle age and mother’s advice
A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers
An hour of rancour with Steven Berkoff
That’s what his new play, The Actor’s Lament, comprises. Surely he can’t be as difficult as his reputation suggests?
Declan Conlon: an accidental actor
Declan Conlon’s career got off to a wobbly start, but now, as he begins a run of Arthur Miller’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in Dublin, he is one of Ireland’s most prolific stage actors
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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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