Donald Clarke: The B&B paperback is dead
Up to the 1980s, every Irish B&B had bookshelves stuffed with books left by guests
Fintan O’Toole: Supreme Court calls time on government waffle
In throwing out State’s Climate Mitigation Plan, judges have done a real service to Irish democracy
Nobody saw it coming ... 10 reasons Frozen became the highest grossing animation ever
Sly feminism, a jerk of a prince, and a tune adored by girls, boys and karaoke drunks
Halle Bailey's casting as the Little Mermaid drove internet racists nuts. Or did it?
Racist backlash to Disney's Little Mermaid casting wasn’t all it seemed
Róisín Meets: ‘She mutilates herself for a man. Young women can relate to that’
Cork author Louise O’Neill on her feminist reimagining of The Little Mermaid
Theatre highlights of the week ending December 24th
In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend
‘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
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
Copenhagen: everything you need to know
The Irish team is off to Copenhagen, so we find out how to get there, and the best places to eat, sleep, drink and explore
Donnybrook redbrick with a tale to tell
36 Belmont Avenue is a five-bedroom Victorian house in turnkey condition
Michael Cunningham’s altered states of reality
In his new novel, the author of The Hours set out to avoid the tropes of fictional drug-taking. He talks about how Aids created new gay families, the power of three, and why he loves Joyce’s The Dead
Stellan Skarsgård: Nymphomaniac’s off-centred everyman
Two decades of collaboration with out-there Lars Von Trier has honed Stellan Skarsgård’s Swedish oddball persona to perfection – but deep down he’s really just an ordinary family man with a peculiar sort of career
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