The Irish Times

Late writer Wesley Burrowes best remembered for ‘Glenroe’

Northern Protestant wrote with great success about ‘primitive’ rural Catholic Ireland

Fri Jan 01 2016 - 16:31

Lian Bell: #WakingTheFeminists still waiting for the Abbey

‘If Fiach Mac Conghail wants to change things, here’s his chance. Accept the mistake. Don’t just say sorry. Do sorry’

Wed Dec 16 2015 - 09:08

€735,000 grant awarded to complete Galway’s arthouse cinema project

Picture Palace ran into series of obstacles after first sod turned in 2009

Tue Aug 11 2015 - 01:00

Druid artistic director Garry Hynes and producer Martha O’Neill become civil partners

Private ceremony took place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre

Fri Dec 19 2014 - 01:00

Galway secures Unesco city of film title

First Irish city to secure film designation as part of creative cities network

Mon Dec 01 2014 - 12:06

Connemara corners and Norway’s fjords to host ‘pop-up’ film project

Ireland and European partners extend independent film shows to marginal regions

Thu Oct 16 2014 - 18:00

Beacon of political broadcasters in first decades of RTÉ

John O’Donoghue: October 6th, 1931 – September 11th, 2014

Sat Sept 20 2014 - 02:32

Macnas pop-up carnival helps raise €40,000 for parade

Street theatre company seeking funds for ‘goofy and Gothic’ Halloween celebration

Fri Jun 20 2014 - 09:34

Joint call for inquiry into Corrib policing

Politicians, journalists and social justice campaigners among petition signatories

Fri Jun 20 2014 - 01:00

Scaoil amach é at Inisheer’s weird and wonderful arts event

The beauty of the biennial Drop Everything is its location on an Aran Island that hums with possibility

Thu May 29 2014 - 01:00

Warm celebration at IMMA of life of artist Patrick Scott

‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’

Tue Apr 08 2014 - 16:55

Adams to visit anti-war activist D’Arcy in Limerick Prison

SF president to see Aosdána member suffering cancer who refuses to sign bail bond

Wed Feb 12 2014 - 10:48

Behind bars with the Shannon One

Margaretta D’Arcy has been a peace activist for most of her life, and neither cancer nor prison appears to deter her. We visit her in Limerick Prison, where she is controversially serving a sentence for an anti-war protest at Shannon Airport

Sat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00

The preferred epitaph of Peter O’Toole, the playboy of the western world

Among the stories emerging about O’Toole in Galway is the one of how a soiled jacket made for the perfect epitaph

Thu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00

First Encounters: ‘We both embroil people in projects’

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy and Lelia Doolan

Sat Dec 14 2013 - 02:00