The Routledge Companion to 21st-century Irish Writing: academics deliver hefty report from the coalface on the state of our culture
A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change
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‘Dreadful government, lack of nightlife, lack of cultural spaces’: Dublin writer Thommas Kane Byrne on his home city
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Dublin singer Shiv: ‘Rent is so high. It’s hard to find places here creatives can go, hang out, meet each other, share ideas’
What’s Next For?: Ireland’s up-and-coming musicians need more help, says Siobhan McClean, who has just released her album The Defiance of a Sadgirl
0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising stars
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Emer Dineen combines high-camp fantasy with a personal tale of family illness, grief and alienation
Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finish
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This original new musical has all the components for a hit
In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Thisispopbaby’s magic sauce: ‘Take Irish traditional culture, add some mirror balls, throw some glitter on it’
The innovative theatre company are bringing back Wake, their exuberant, life-affirming explosion of a show, for St Patrick’s Festival 2024
Artists in Dublin: ‘The lack of space is the core issue. We’re all fighting for the same thing’
Dublin City Council has defended its open-call process for providing workspace for artists, which some have called ‘a shambles’
‘I think the Abbey knew I might do something a little bit queer with this Quare Fellow’
Tom Creed’s new production of Brendan Behan’s play – the first at the theatre for almost 40 years – features a cast of all female and nonbinary actors
Conversations After Sex: ‘We’re naked at the top of the show. You can’t get more vulnerable than that’
Actor Kate Stanley-Brennan explores her route to acting and her role in this ‘beautiful, truthful’ Mark O’Halloran play
Wake review: Thisispopbaby’s brilliant new show is like Riverdance for club queens
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Jennifer Jennings, Phillip McMahon and Niall Sweeney find new life in old traditions
A ‘big, bold’ idea for Dublin city: A heated outdoor swimming pool in George’s Dock
Whitewater rafting for the Docklands is still being discussed, but now there is a push for a lido
Eurovision 2020 cancelled: ‘My heart goes out to my fellow artists and Eurovision fans’
Coronavirus: Irish entrant Lesley Roy praises song contest for putting people’s health first
Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’
The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre
Eurovision 2020: The verdict on Story of my Life, Ireland’s entry
Lesley Roy’s song has been billed as a game changer. For once, the plaudits might be justified
Is this the Eurovision winner? Dara Ó Briain and, er, Russell Crowe love it
Think about Things, Iceland’s 2020 entry, is a synth-pop earworm that’s going viral
Review: I am Tonie Walsh. What is a club DJ if not a keeper of records?
Walsh chronicles several turbulent decades of progress and setbacks in his solo show
Theatre: Legendary ‘Godfather of Gay’ DJ Tonie Walsh takes to the stage
Theatre highlights: DJ turned activist Tonie Walsh introduces himself to the theatre; while Ken Rogan’s inspired debut play tells the oldest story in the freshest way
Fine, feathered friends and neighbours: The week’s best theatre
Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival
‘Irish people empathise with the loneliness of the immigrant experience’
New musical combines Irish emigrant and asylum seeker stories
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