‘Dublin Oldschool’: The making of a summer street movie
Emmet Kirwan and Dave Tynan are shooting a low-budget film in Dublin's crowded city centre
‘At 14, watching Johnny Marr play guitar in his bedroom was a privilege’
Conor Pope talks to former ‘Coronation Street’ star Kevin Kennedy about growing up in Manchester and his new role in stage musical adaptation of ‘The Commitments’
Kathy Sheridan: Why Hugh McElvaney expects to top poll and probably will
People like us will decide that on balance, Hughie is a grand fellow, up front at every funeral and ready with a hand-out for a family in trouble
Unthinkable: Are Irish people becoming ‘less black’?
Whiteness is as much frame of mind as skin colouring, says Linda Martín Alcoff
Sticking with their Script
For six years, Danny O’Donoghue and his bandmates have relied on an ethos of plain talk, hard work and ambition – 10 million albums later, it’s worked
Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy is One City, One Book selection
Festival encourages reading of book connected to Dublin in April of each year
Do our books, plays and films really reflect the new multicultural Ireland?
An attentive look at the small print of race and immigration in Ireland today
‘Roddy Doyle? So what?’
Staying in Dublin has kept the writer grounded and in touch with Irish life. So although lots of people would like to see The Commitments II, Doyle has other issues, from the recession to middle-aged angst, on his mind
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