Deirdre Falvey

Deirdre Falvey

Feature writer

Deirdre Falvey is a features and arts writer at The Irish Times

I Fall Down, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is joyful, considered and very funny

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gina Moxley’s ‘restoration comedy’ frankly contemplates women’s erasure in the official history of art

‘This was not the way my parents grew up. People were not proud of their deaf children’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Her Father’s Voice, Shane O’Reilly’s new play, tackles cochlear implants and attitudes to the deaf community

Graham Knuttel’s widow: ‘I think he may have been the most unwoke person I ever met’

Artist’s widow Ruth Mathers recalls his illness, death, irrepressible sense of fun and the relationship that changed both their lives

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Alison Spittle, FeliSpeaks and 21 other attention-grabbing shows to keep an eye out for

This year’s festival is a great opportunity to sample the huge range of theatre, comedy, spoken word, dance, music and more being made in Ireland – plus some international treats too

Jane O’Leary: ‘I never say I’m a composer. I make music and I listen to it. I’m part of a community. That’s what matters to me’

Jane O’Leary, recipient of the National Concert Hall’s lifetime-achievement award, on her half-century of musical innovation

Kilkenny Arts Festival review: Sinews strain as daylight fades in uplifting Neon Dusk

Theatre: Intimate setting lends new dimension to high-intensity acrobatic performance

Kilkenny Arts Festival review: Spellbinding drama about first woman accused of witchcraft in Ireland

Theatre: The Alice Project tells the legend of Dame Alice Kyteler and her unfortunate servant Petronella

What Are You Afraid Of? at Kilkenny Arts Festival: Peter Hanly’s stage-fright journey is provoking, enlightening and enriching

Lynne Parker directs her Rough Magic colleague with sensitivity and sureness and nuance, as well as a deft comic touch

A US couple in Clonmel: ‘America is me-me-me-me. Ireland still has that community feeling’

Barrie Peterson and Bea Conner moved from upstate New York to Clonmel in June 2024

Dublin Theatre Festival programme revealed

Róise Goan announces her first programme as artistic director and CEO

Why the Moon Travels review: Eye-opening show is not just a retelling of Traveller folktales

Galway International Arts Festival: For the audience, there are hints of things we want to hear more about

Story of a Day – Scéal Lae review: Nothing special is pretty special

Galway International Arts Festival: This show has the high production values children’s theatre deserves

A US animal lawyer in Wexford: ‘There’s a real social cost here: if you’re not fun, you’re gonna pay’

Peter Brandt moved from Portland, Oregon to Wexford in 2021

Enda Walsh’s The Baby’s Room: an evocative moment of self-realisation

Galway International Arts Festival: another tour de force by Kate Gilmore, written and directed by Enda Walsh

T5 and Sea Wall double bill review: Two very different responses to trauma pack an emotional punch

Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Simon Stephens’ short one-act monologues are strong, forthright and beautiful

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