The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dream

As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes sense

Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film Festival

Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar

Is there such a thing as an Irish film anymore? Does it matter?

At its most successful Irish cinema tells local stories that resonate abroad and at home

From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it

Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre

The Virtues takes us back in time, to dark happenings in 1980s Louth

Review: A startling drama from the director of This is England has a shadowy Irish storyline

Helen Behan: I had impostor syndrome at the start, now I’m like a giddy child

The star of Shane Meadows’s The Virtues says she has a thirst for honest performances

Mel Mercier: ‘When I work in theatre, I often think that it’s like painting’

Composer’s new album ‘Testament’ aims to meld disparate musical works

‘The septic tank? The amount of bodies? It was heartbreaking. I wanted to do something’

‘Cellar Door' director Viko Nikci on his new horror film, inspired by Magdalene laundries and Tuam babies scandal

‘After the Celtic Tiger, maybe even ordinary people became a little more brutal’

Paddy Breathnach on making a film about a homeless family with Roddy Doyle

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

The best films from the 30th Galway Film Fleadh

The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of the Flame, Unquiet Graves and I, Dolours

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

Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman

Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

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

Citizen Lane: Art and the creation of the Irish nation

Hugh Lane’s contribution to cultural history is the focus of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s new film

Pan Pan take on Oscar Wilde: The best theatre shows this week

Fishamble bring Maz and Bricks, unlikely allies with different views on life, back into the street protests of contemporary Dublin

‘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

An Irish comedy about a Muslim abattoir? Pull the other one

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