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Seán O’Casey
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
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In Dublin, there was always, amid dark days, music being made and sung
The city has its troubles, but it also has a cultural robustness that took the edge off some of the difficulties
Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey
Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July
Agnes O’Casey: ‘It’s just been so easy to hate women, no matter the period. And that is terrifying’
The great-granddaughter of the playwright Seán O’Casey is doing the family name proud, starring in two new films, Lies We Tell and The Miracle Club
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Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can be proud of itself only if it can confront its shameful deeds
Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride
DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Archive covers more than 100 years of the Irish language movement
Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway
Passenger locator – Frank McNally on a century of poputchiks, Mitläufers, and fellow travellers
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It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a star
Television: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley Road
Council purchase of Seán O’Casey’s last Dublin home stalls
Dispute among owners understood to have halted sale of playwright’s house to city council
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Turbulent Priest – Frank McNally on John Ball, the Peasants’ Revolt, and the last of the English Villains
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A Window on the Switzers – Frank McNally’s further reflections on a remarkable Irish-American
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Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Restaurateur Peter White’s lifetime collection sale to include notable artworks
Sale of some 350 lots includes paintings, bronzes, prints, antique furniture, china and silver
Seán O’Casey’s last Dublin home bought by city council to house homeless
Councillors to propose that playwright’s house be used as a cultural centre
Study of Coombe hospital over 60 years shows progress of Irish maternity care
Nine-fold decrease in chance of a baby dying during pregnancy since 1960s
Sabina Higgins leads charge for arts centre at Sean O’Casey house
Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation
Seán O’Casey’s house to be bought by Dublin City Council
Council has revived plans to use playwright’s house for homeless accommodation
Plan to buy Seán O’Casey house for homeless shelved due to funding issues
Council ‘not overly confident’ money to buy property could be secured due to Covid-19
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
O’Casey In The Estate spins a powerfully human story
RTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedom
Fintan O'Toole: Crisis management is what the State does best
Immense task of reconstruction will demand much more than frantic improvisation
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JP McMahon: Irish food was never just one thing
To try and define Irish food for a new generation was my ultimate aim in writing The Irish Cook Book
The forgotten Irishwoman who once ruled the New York fashion industry
Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market
Touring helps Abbey Theatre boost box office receipts by 28%
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
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