No Man’s Land Commission – Frank McNally on the case for opening Ireland’s ‘most important social archive’
An Irishman’s Diary
Drumlin Dramatist – Frank McNally on how Tyrone Guthrie made jam (and Hamlet) among the hills of Monaghan
An Irishman’s Diary
Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home
New venue opens on the eastern banks of river Nore with exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein
Tyrone Power, the actor who humanised the ‘stage Irishman’ stereotype
Character was a comic staple on stage: sentimental, buffoonish, cowardly but popular
Bernard Loughlin made Annaghmakerrig ‘an inclusive, non-judgmental, thrilling place’
Rosita Boland recalls the thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Former director of Tyrone Guthrie centre dies in Catalonia
Bernard Loughlin ran artists’ retreat at Annaghmakerrig in Co Monaghan for 18 years
Rise Above! Letters from Tyrone Guthrie review: an admirable collection
Fintan O’Toole on Christopher Fitz-Simon’s edition of the great theatre director’s delightfully lively letters
All the world’s a stage for playwright bursary
There’s still time to apply for the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary. Last year’s recipient Dylan Coburn Gray has won the Verity Bargate Award in the UK
Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist
John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling
Dispatches from the theatrical front: a look behind the Abbey’s boardroom scenes, from 1904 to 1939
The newly digitised minute books of the Abbey Theatre’s board meetings during its early decades reveal a host of remarkable struggles, from attempted censorship by Dublin Corporation to artistic disputes at the top of the theatre
Fintan O’Toole: The truth according to Brian Friel
For the late playwright the past and our images of it were slippery and treacherous. Truth lay not in public facts but in private fictions
The drama and debacle of the Sallins train robbery
Musician Cormac Breatnach’s brother was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins Mail Train Robbery at the behest of a cohort within the Garda. Now he hopes a new theatre show will cast light on the injustice
Belfast-born painter whose career spanned 50 years
Noreen Rice: February 19th, 1936 - March 19th, 2015
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