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Mystery of life on earth and beyond extends to the Big Bang, dark matter and much more
Mystery of life on earth and beyond extends to the Big Bang, dark matter and much more
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Throughout her long acting career Rigg retained the electric irony that made her such a phenomenon in the 1960s
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Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money
It was completely impossible to know which side had won and which side had lost
Like the Oscar Wilde play that inspired it, To Hell in a Handbag imagines characters spinning complicated, comic fictions that bend reality to their will
Review: It addresses hot topics – rape culture, gun violence – without being heavy-handed
‘I don’t like to brag about it. It was Hitler-time . . . and I somehow survived’
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
Bob Geldof solves a murder in the midst of Band Aid in James Ward Byrkit’s proposed film
And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival
Meanwhile, Leo proves to be the perfect host as Fine Gael looks forward to summer nights
Brain experiments have yet to shed light on the ‘freedom that matters’, says philosopher Markus Schlosser
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
The myth and memory of Thomas Michael Kettle, steeped in both the Great Warand the Easter Rising, live on
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Thousands face immediate evacuation if Lille tribunal decides against them on Tuesday
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Scandal threatened to bring down Harold MacMillan’s government in the 1960s
Theatre hosts ‘zombie’ politician performance as Russia discourages Halloween celebrations
With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels
Whether it comes as with a bang or a whimper, the ending of an act of theatre gives it shape and meaning. At best, it leaves us wanting more.
Simon Stephens’s ‘Punk Rock’ is coming to the Lyric, in a statement of intent by the Belfast theatre’s new boss. So will it deliver something ‘live, direct, physical and unpredictable’?
Shortlisted this week for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Audrey Magee’s ‘The Undertaking’ has the second World War as its backdrop. Here’s a selection of our favourite literary quotations on war
The Shed, an intimate space at home to experimental theatre, seems like a venue designed to suit the times. At the heart of its success is Ben Power, a dramaturg, ‘shadowy figure’ and Shakespeare’s ‘remixer’
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, now 30 years old, are a vital part of Dublin’s cultural quarter
No novelist would dare dream up the Dreyfus affair, the spy scandal that engulfed France, but the author of ‘Fatherland’, ‘Enigma’ and ‘Ghost’ effectively tells its story in his new book, ‘An Officer and a Spy’
‘How cheap the wine is makes a positive difference to the taste’
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