Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours

Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call

Playwright Sonya Kelly on her hero Tig Notaro and French series Call My Agent

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

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

David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight

Druid premieres two original works while a new company take their maiden voyage with Foyle’s Punt

This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts

‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy

Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

As Dublin Pride kicks off, an exhibition looks at those still hiding in plain sight

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

Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

What’s on: theatre and music and the best TV

Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival