The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
Druid theatre company
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The book’s main shortcoming is its hyper focus on the founders of Druid at the expense of a broader theatrical framework
Barack Obama ‘should receive no welcome in Ireland’: freedom of Dublin debate reopens
Plus: a job opening at Druid; Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran wades in; and Declan Ganley’s solar plan impresses an AI chatbot
Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
Riders to the Sea and Macbeth: A magnificent horror unbalancing nature
Theatre: Druid’s Galway International Arts Festival double bill
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’
The Beacon by Nancy Harris review: West Cork murder mystery becomes a beautifully explored family conversation
Sara Joyce directs the Everyman’s revival of a witty play about contemporary modes of speech and even thought
First Look: JP McMahon’s new Kombu Ramen and Bao Bar – ‘I don’t know how to do anything else. I like opening restaurants’
New Japanese-style restaurant in Galway will be casual, with some dishes priced below €10
Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago
‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage
Cormac Ó hEadhra is a smart guy but he asks some pretty dumb questions
Radio: The RTÉ Drivetime host shouldn’t be startled by the number of people who prefer to avoid the news
Picture story: Druid Theatre prepares to mark 50 years with Shakespeare and Synge
Riders to the Sea and Macbeth come to the Mick Lally Theatre as part of Galway International Arts Festival
Death announced of Wildfire Films producer Martha O’Neill
Award-winning film and television producer served on boards of Screen Ireland, Screen Producers Ireland and the Irish Film Institute
Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
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