The Irish Times

A Girl from Mogadishu: Ifrah Ahmed is very impressive. This film about her life is not

Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid

Fri Dec 04 2020 - 05:00

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 16:16

Pat Kinevane: On My Culture Radar

Actor on his favourite New Zealand city, his appreciation of Niall Buggy and dancing at ‘Dreamgirls’

Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 13:45

Sebastian Barry’s prison drama plays to captive audience at Mountjoy

Fishamble stages ‘On Blueberry Hill’ in ‘mansion by the Royal Canal’

Tue Oct 24 2017 - 20:17

Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Mon Oct 02 2017 - 12:10

Tributes paid to ‘great actor and fearless advocate’ Anita Reeves

Hundreds gather at Mansion House on Saturday morning for humanist ceremony

Sun Jul 10 2016 - 13:53

Cultural greats honour Edna O’Brien’s life and writing

Gathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’Leary

Mon Apr 25 2016 - 01:00

Review – You Never Can Tell: Excuses are hard to make for Shaw’s problematic play

The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun

Wed Dec 09 2015 - 14:51

Who wins when artists stage a cultural boycott?

600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?

Fri Mar 20 2015 - 15:43

Do you know the way to Galway International?

The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere

Mon Jul 21 2014 - 01:00

Galway’s festival of pictures, pop, opera and soundscapes

Broad in scope and well presented, the exhibitions of Galway International Arts Festival reward visitors of all stripes

Sat Jul 19 2014 - 01:00

Fear and loathing in Buncrana

Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland

Sat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00