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Performer on the appeal of Deadwood, rising photographer George Voronov, and why Kindles are the ‘anti-phone’

Sure Look It, Fuck It review: Clare Dunne soars in grungy ode to Dublin and home

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

This week’s theatre highlights: Sure Look It, Fuck It and The Children

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

Do the Poolbeg towers really define modern Ireland?

Artists and activists are searching for a national character lost in the boom and forgotten in the recession

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

‘Close to death? I got tied up in an armed robbery when I was 24’

In Conversation: Emmet Kirwan and Ian Lloyd Anderson

Dublin Fringe Festival: What should I see this year?

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

‘Everyone had girls’ names in the seminary’

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

Dublin Oldschool: Dave Tynan’s wordy, puzzling, plotless film

The screen fizzes with the talent of some of Ireland’s best actors. But it’s not enough

Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’

The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Ronan Farrow interview shows Sean O’Rourke at his best

Radio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan Farrow

‘Just another Dublin dope trying to find ways to say, I love you, woman’

Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’

‘Art’ at the Gaiety, ‘Late at the Gate’: the best theatre this week

Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’

‘Heartbroken’ arts festivals and shows count cost of snow

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

Snow closures: List of theatres, cinemas, museums and cancelled events

Many performances around the country called off and festivals are severely curtailed

We Don’t Know What’s Buried Here – The best theatre shows this week

Stacey Gregg’s award-winning play about a teenager’s fraught search for identity and Grace Dyas’s new play about digging for truth in the shadow of a Magdalene Laundry

Irish Film Board announces major releases for 2018

TV adaptation of George RR Martin’s Nightflyers and Wolfwalkers among highly anticipated productions

‘It was tough . . . but I’ve stepped into a time in Irish theatre that’s really alive’

The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions

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