Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
Writers from Fighting Words programme meet for first time as their plays grace the stage
Series of online talks featuring Irish Times journalists and guests concludes on Friday
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Hilary Fannin: A dinner with old friends led me to reflect on past and current concerns
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
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The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland
Hilary Fannin: We just don’t seem to be able to get enough of this ‘celebration of Irish women and their achievements’
Episode 10 explores women’s voices on air, Grainne Maguire’s menstrual tweets and memoir writing with Hilary Fannin
Hilary Fannin’s play takes in a decade of loves won and lost and our economic boom and bust
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The sight of big, naked, depilated turkeys sitting up on the countertop like ghostly jurors makes me feel kind of crushed, but, shag it, all in all I’m grateful
The shoes are more orthopaedic than elegant, big blocky black things that cost a lot of money
I would like to think I no longer foolishly aspire to youthful comeliness
Five people compose letters from Ireland to the wider world. Read theirs, write your own, and we’ll publish the best ones on St Patrick’s Weekend
Let’s ditch Mr Hallmark and have an alternative Valentine’s Day celebration
’Tis the season to hurl our grubby cushions on the bonfire, to stand in front of the dusty mirror holding our midriffs in our capable hands
And that dirty word ‘detox’ will play about your lips like the tingle of aged Stilton or the rosy kiss of a Turkish delight
Apparently Sarah Palin has written a book about putting the Christ back into Christmas. She should drop in to my place. He crops up a lot
Guest psychologists on radio at this time of year tell us to lower our expectations of Christmas. They’re right, of course
My addiction to ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!’ started around the time my husband was being prodded and probed and diced and spliced in hospital
In my childhood days, couscous was a whispered song, uttered to entice stray cats into a sack
The friendliness of Westport helped rescue me from that November feeling
When my brother was diagnosed, I momentarily felt like I hadn’t been invited out to play
Comedian and mindfulness advocate to be interviewed by playwright John Breen
Battle with a blocked wastepipe plunged me into thought: I don’t really understand the varied tapestry of this country at all
She came of age among tribes of girls wearing furry boots that cost more than a well in a desert, but she came from a different world
Katie Price, the babe who launched a thousand implants, now appears anachronistic, almost antique
I admire Helen Fielding’s nous but I never much bought into Bridget’s world
Fiftysomething: The sheer tedium of Gone Girl, ‘the thriller of the year’, will obliterate your critical faculties
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices