Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musical
Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre
Strange confection: The Commitments and the battle for Dublin’s soul
A British director, an Irish cast and an African-American soundtrack – but it worked
Twist: Lena Headey is ruthless. Michael Caine is barely awake
Film review: Sky makes a complete pig’s ear of a street-hustler take on Oliver Twist
An oral history of Fame: ‘In between takes it was pretty wild’
Four decades later, cast and crew recall the fun and the fights on set of late Alan Parker’s enduring hit
Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in Dublin
The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career
Alan Parker, director of The Commitments, dies aged 76
Oscar-nominated film-maker passed away ‘following a lengthy illness’, says family spokeswoman
Alan Parker on The Commitments: ‘I never met an Irish person who didn’t like it’
The director on making The Commitments, keeping tabs on the cast and breaking the record for swearwords in a film
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Pat Critchley: ‘You teach or coach the person first and the subject or the game second’
A lifetime in the classroom and on the sidelines has brought rich dividends for Laois man
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
Malachy McCourt: ‘Frank wouldn’t be happy unless he was miserable’
Angela’s Ashes returns to Dublin in September. What’s it like to see your family’s story of growing up in poverty as a musical?
Mica Paris: ‘Bankruptcy just means you made too much money’
The ex-pop star on ‘meddling suits’, her brother’s violent death and Fame The Musical
Italian terraces are once again housing a rise in fascism
Many ultra groups have had neo-Nazi links for years but undertones are getting louder
Wild Geese: getting in on the ‘ACTION’ in Tinseltown
If you are raising a family and work in TV then LA is the place to be, says producer and director Marcus Fox
Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’
The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesman
Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ as a rock opera? Jesus Christ...
Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. Enough
The reel Dublin: Best movies about the capital city
Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’
Top 10 prison films to watch: Donald Clarke picks his favourites
As acclaimed Irish movie Michael Inside is released, we look at prison movies from Birdman of Alcatraz to The Shawshank Redemption
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’
From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace
Musical poverty: If ‘Oliver!’ can do it, so can ‘Angela’s Ashes’
Ellen Frey McCourt on the musical version of her late husband’s harrowing childhood memoir
Blast from the past: ‘Angela’s Ashes: the Musical’ takes to stage
Show based on Frank McCourt’s best-selling memoir to play Dublin, Limerick and Belfast
John Hurt’s films: 10 of his best performances
Donald Clarke selects some stand-out pictures from veteran actor’s career
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
Let’s build a Dublin that we would like to see on screen
Development plan ignores how cameras see the city and distribute its image worldwide
Adams line on nationalism and slavery wide of mark
Sinn Féin president’s retreat from incendiary tweets exposes an underlying anxiety
Versatile actor best remembered for ‘The Commitments’
Johnny Murphy: October 2nd, 1943 - February 23rd, 2016
From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition
‘Commitments’ star Johnny Murphy dies at 72
Actor played Estragon in the long-running Gate Theatre production of ‘Waiting for Godot’
Jennifer O’Connell: 15 things we learned from the Barrytown trilogy
Roddy Doyle’s trilogy is up for this year’s Dublin: One City, One Book initiative. That’s very clever all the same
Oscar winner Glen Hansard fined for speeding
Singer-songwriter admitting to driving at 73 km/h in a 60km/h zone
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