Tom Hickey obituary: An actor with a vocation for his craft

‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’

Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died

President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’

‘Filth’ at the Abbey – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Siobhán McKenna and Archbishop McQuaid

President leads tributes to late playwright and poet Tom MacIntyre, 87

Authors, actors and critics remember the Cavan writer best known for The Great Hunger

‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’

A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy

Fintan O’Toole: Britain, send your creative refugees our way

Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea

Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights

Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’

The highs and lows of Eugene Downes in Kilkenny

He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected

A back-to-basics opera experience in the best possible way

The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients

The magic of Monteverdi and what he means to us

Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan

Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Arts Festival

As always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramount

Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week

Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny

Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms

Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu

Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August